__tl;dr: Research Manager, short-term (long-term possible), $6k-9k/month, Capetown, South Africa __

Tired of your academic advisor? Reviewers not responding? Grant not approved? University not reimbursing conference expenses?

Want to quit all your research and go to Africa for four months? 🦒

Great, that's exactly what we wanted to offer you. Our friends from Principles of Intelligence (PIBBSS) are running a fellowship in Cape Town — the one where scientists from very different fields conduct research on AI Safety for three months.

And we are looking for a Research Manager for this program — someone who will help these scientists not go crazy in a new domain. You will need to support a High Culture of Research, provide feedback, help fellows cooperate with their mentors, help develop training materials, facilitate events... a lot of things! 🤩

To do this, you need: ⏺ to have experience supporting researchers (not necessarily in exactly the same role — if you were someone's academic advisor, that might also work); ⏺ to be able to help develop early ideas and criticize them. And, of course, to distinguish when each is needed! ⏺ to skillfully coordinate numerous mentors and mentees; ⏺ to know enough about ML and interpretability research to generally understand what's going on.

It would be great if you also know a lot about AI risks or interpretability, have led reading groups or something similar 📚

They pay $6k-9k/month, provide accommodation, food, tickets to and from Cape Town, and most importantly — it's a trial project: if you like each other, you can join PIBBSS full-time.

As it often is with PIBBSS, time is ticking especially fast — we are accepting applications by August 14th.

Write to Diana @yourdivna and tell your friends!