Redwood Research Hiring for Recruiting and MLAB Lead at Berkeley, CA Full Time

Our ambitious research agenda will require a great deal of talent, especially ML engineers. We’re looking for people who can help drive this growth. The population of qualified, aligned ML engineers is small, this requires more than typical recruiting efforts. You’ll need to engage heavily in programs that discover and develop great candidates such as Constellation, the Machine Learning for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB), and more.

Responsibilities include:
Optimizing Redwood’s recruiting strategy and processes

Owning “are we closing our top candidates quickly enough, and if not, why?”

Helping run large scale Redwood programs such as the Machine Learning for Alignment Bootcamp (MLAB), summer internship programs, and more

Sourcing high-priority candidates

Creating new AI alignment and longtermist community-building programming for Redwood and other organizations in Constellation

Building an extensive personal global network within the longtermist and ML communities

Direct personal outreach to potential candidates to explore fit and inspire them to join

Re-designing the website, optimizing for drawing in talent and communicating our research to various stakeholders

Fix problems as you see them – spend maybe 20% of your time doing various special projects

This is a full-time role. We expect staff to work on-site. Our office is in downtown Berkeley, thirteen seconds from the nearest BART stop. Compensation depends on experience, but will likely be $120k – $140k/year. We offer catered lunches and dinners, and cover PPO health, dental, and vision insurance. We will consider international applicants who need visas.

If you would like to express interest in this role but don’t want to be considered for the current hiring round there is the option to specify this in your application. Any questions, please email [email protected], if you’re on the fence about applying, please email us.

About Us

Redwood Research is a research organization with the mission of aligning superhuman AI. In addition to our primary work of applied AI alignment research, Redwood hosts and operates Constellation, a shared office space we created to foster knowledge-sharing and collaboration between longtermist organizations. People from the following organizations often work from the space: Paul Christiano’s Alignment Research Center, MIRI, and Open Philanthropy.

Redwood and Constellation are rapidly expanding. Redwood Research is led by Nate Thomas (CEO), Buck Shlegeris (CTO), and Bill Zito (COO), and a board of Nate Thomas, Holden Karnofsky, and Paul Christiano.