Strategy Researcher
Strategy Researcher
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17-05-2025
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Job Description
About Constellation
Constellation is an independent research center that brings together people throughout the AI safety ecosystem to accelerate insight research and talent through better cooperation. Unlike a conference or summit Constellation operates continuously in the form of a physical workspace as well as conferencestyle talks workshops and training bootcamps. Continuous operation allows for relationships and conversations to develop over time meaningfully fostering trust collaboration and shared insight. It also makes Constellation a natural fieldbuilding hub by rapidly inspiring orienting and connecting people who are newer to the field.
Based in Berkeley CA our shared workspace hosts over 100 people per week across dozens of AI safety organizations in nonprofits academia industry and government. Hundreds of other researchers spend time at Constellation for shorter visits each year. We believe this is the strongest and highestoutput network of AI safety researchers in the world; dozens of participants in past Constellation programs have gone on to safetyfocused roles at companies such as METR Redwood Research Anthropic Google DeepMind OpenAI and the US and UK Safety Institutes. Our core team currently includes 20 core members and is expected to grow to 2530 by the end of the year. In addition we work closely with an extended team of 510 collaborators.
Constellations sole research focus is on mitigating extreme global safety and security risks from future AI systems including human extinction. For more information see our research focus areas and selected publications from Constellation fellows.
About the role
Constellation is looking for people to do semiindependent research on AI safety macrostrategy parttime or fulltime for 13 months.
The goal is to produce a broad overview of the most promising interventions for mitigating catastrophic risks from the development of transformative AI. We expect a focus on analyzing aggregating and synthesizing existing proposals as opposed to developing novel interventions. We are most interested in work describing portfolios of interventions that might collectively mitigate all such risks but would consider proposals from candidates interested in focusing on a broad subset of TAI risks (e.g. loss of control or concentration of power) or interventions (e.g. policy and/or governance interventions).
The output of the engagement will be a formal or informal publication (e.g. blog post) which documents your work. Your analysis will inform Constellations strategic planning including which fieldbuilding programs we prioritize.
Work will be fairly independent. We will supply a more specific prompt in line with the goals described above and offer periodic feedback and questions but you will be expected and encouraged to pursue your work as you see fit within the broad constraints of the prompt.
Skills
Youre ideal for this engagement if you have:
Extensive domain expertise in AI safety especially broad expertise thinking holistically about threat models and mitigations
Exceptional epistemic clarity including reasoning with and communicating about uncertainty
The ability to identify and build from the fundamental assumptions or elements of a problem
Experience reasoning about practical constraints such as decisionmaking processes organizational dynamics international politics and project planning
The ability to create clarity for others in complex conceptual terrain (through precise language intuitive models and frameworks etc.)
Very clear and concise writing
Experience successfully managing your own output on long projects with limited direction
Compensation and Logistics
We expect to structure this engagement as an hourly contract. Rates will depend on experience but will likely be between $50/hr and $150/hr.
This is a temporary position for 13 months with a flexible schedule. Fulltime or parttime options are available. We are primarily an onsite team based in Berkeley and the Constellation workspace hosts many top safety researchers. We will however consider remote candidates for this particular engagement.
If there is a strong mutual fit we may be interested in extending the engagement or converting this to an ongoing fulltime role though this scenario should be considered exploratory and is also dependent on other factors. We may be able to sponsor visas for such cases. Ongoing fulltime roles would be onsite in Berkeley CA. Our office is located under 20 seconds from the nearest BART (metro) stop and onsite parking is also available.
We value diversity in all respects and base our hiring decisions on the needs of the organization and individual qualifications. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds regardless of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age or disability.
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