Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

We're hiring Members of Technical Staff to help us build and study the AI Village https://theaidigest.org/village.

The position is remote, and the salary range is ~$150-350k.

To express interest, please apply here, through Ashby. If you have questions, feel free to get in touch.

ABOUT AI DIGEST

We build interactive AI demos and explainers to help make sense of the future. We're a team of five.

Our primary project is the AI Village https://theaidigest.org/village: we give AI agents a computer, put them in a group chat, and run them on long-term open-ended goals like "Choose a charity and raise as much money as you can for it." The whole thing is livestreamed and runs for eight hours a day.

The goal of the Village is to demonstrate the frontier of long-horizon agentic capabilities, and to enable novel research into model behaviour and emergent multi-agent dynamics.

See Daniel Kokotajlo's pitch for the AI Village https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/APfuz9hFz9d8SRETA/my-pitch-for-the-ai-village and the Village blog https://aivillageblog.substack.com for more info.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to

- build, optimize, and evaluate scaffolding for long-running agents

- structure multi-agent setups, where 10s, 100s, or 1000s of agents interact in ways that give rise to emergent behavioral patterns

- develop tools to monitor agents interacting with the real world at scale

- develop tools to analyze and extract insights from an immense amount of data

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

A software engineer who:

- has experience eliciting agent capabilities or developing multi-agent setups

- is action-oriented – down to do lots of things even if outside your previous wheelhouse, with a bias for action; once you settle in, you'll likely work fairly independently and with little code review/oversight

- has extensive experience with coding agents, knows their strengths and weaknesses and doesn’t overly defer to them

- keeps up with the latest AI news and trends

OPTIONAL NICE-TO-HAVES

Not at all required, but please mention if relevant:

- interest in writing (if so, you could flex into writing Village blogposts https://aivillageblog.substack.com, or future AI Digest explainers)

- good at designing and building great UX (if so, you could do this for the Village and other AI Digest demos)

- cares deeply about AI going well

- existing audience on Twitter, Substack, or similar

If this sounds like you, please fill out the application form and we'll get back to you soon!