Mathematical AI
Safety Institute

Research
Facilitator

Systems Administration + Research Coordination

Compensation: $200,000 starting salary, with benefits and opportunity for raises.

This role is for people who like facilitating research by organizing people and computer systems! Responsibilities fall into two categories:

  • Sys Admin responsibilities:
    • ensuring our research faculty are set up with relevant computer accounts, including Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, frontier AI providers, and cloud computing providers that may be idiosyncratic to their research;
    • managing payments and budget allocations for researchers using these accounts;
    • occasionally making minor updates to the MAISI website;
  • Research Coordination responsibilities:
    • helping researchers collate their work in a shared location that is easy for others to access and build upon;
    • organizing schedules for research meetings and discussions;
    • occasionally facilitating research discussions, such as by encouraging researchers to ask probing questions about each others’ approaches to AI safety.

Day to day, this will mean:

  • configuring lots of computer systems,
  • answering lots of email, Slack messages, and phone calls,
  • deconfusing group threads with researchers and enterprise sales reps from whom MAISI is requesting services, and
  • occasionally attending research group meetings to facilitate discussions and identify systemic ways to accelerate our team.

An ideal candidate is someone who:

  • familiarizes quickly with new computer systems,
  • has a high standard for interpersonal communication,
  • enjoys receiving a lot of incoming communications in writing, telephone, and in-person,
  • enjoys working with new people every week as they engage with us as research staff, visitors, or business partners, and
  • is passionate about accelerating mathematical AI safety researchers learning about and producing more safety research.
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