Suggestion: If you’re not sure anyone would want to read your job post, reply to this comment and say what your job is, then see how people respond.
Also, consider that we’ll have a nice tag for these posts and that, if lots of people write them, the tag will become a resource that could help hundreds of EA-aligned job-seekers.
I work as a senior policy analyst in the New Zealand government, specifically in the area of genetic modification policy. I can talk about how I got the job, and why I think I excel at it, despite not having a background in science, as well as what the work is like day-to-day.
For the past five years I have been doing contract work for a bunch of individuals and organizations, often overlapping with the EA movement’s interests. For a list of things I’ve done, you can see here or here. I can say more about how I got started and what it’s like to do this kind of work if there is interest.
I’m a generalist researcher at Rethink Priorities. I’m on the longtermism team and that’s what I try to spend most of my time doing, but some of my projects touch on global health and some of projects are relevant to animal welfare as well (I think doing work across cause areas is fairly common at RP, though this will likely decrease with time as the org gets larger and individual researchers become more specialized).
I’m happy to talk about my job, but unclear how valuable this is, given that a) “generalist researcher” is probably one of the most well-known of EA jobs and b) Rethink is probably one of the more public EA orgs, at least among orgs that aren’t primarily doing community building, and people interested can look at things like our AMAs (2019, 2020).
I’d be interested in this. Even though “generalist researcher” is well-known, I think it’s easy from the outside to get a distorted picture of the “content” of the job. Aside from this recent post, I don’t know of write ups about it off the top of my head (though there could be ones I don’t know about), and of course multiple writeups are useful since different people’s situations and experiences will be different.
I’m currently interning at the Stanford Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship! My team works on using computer vision and Google Street View data to identify physical features of buildings and urban environments that might correlate with community well-being in U.S. cities.
I think the fellowship is good for students who are interested in getting into academic research and data science, so I’m happy to talk more about it if anyone’s interested.
Hi Evelyn, I would be very keen to hear about this! Especially your general thoughts on data science, as I’m not based in the US, though may apply for a US masters in future.
I’d love to hear more about your trajectory and work!
This interview with Reuben Munger is one of my favorite discussions with an energy/infrastructure financier who is having an impact on renewable energy markets in North America — it certainly led me to consider his corner of finance a fairly EA-friendly career path — in case it’s interesting to you or others: https://capitalallocators.com/podcast/private-capital-perspective/
I work as co-director of Apart Research, specifically with research management, AI safety research consulting, and field-building. I’m entrepreneurially focused.
Suggestion: If you’re not sure anyone would want to read your job post, reply to this comment and say what your job is, then see how people respond.
Also, consider that we’ll have a nice tag for these posts and that, if lots of people write them, the tag will become a resource that could help hundreds of EA-aligned job-seekers.
I work as a senior policy analyst in the New Zealand government, specifically in the area of genetic modification policy. I can talk about how I got the job, and why I think I excel at it, despite not having a background in science, as well as what the work is like day-to-day.
I’d be extremely interested in this, and it’s the highest-karma comment on this thread at the moment!
Sweet, will do!
For the past five years I have been doing contract work for a bunch of individuals and organizations, often overlapping with the EA movement’s interests. For a list of things I’ve done, you can see here or here. I can say more about how I got started and what it’s like to do this kind of work if there is interest.
I’m a generalist researcher at Rethink Priorities. I’m on the longtermism team and that’s what I try to spend most of my time doing, but some of my projects touch on global health and some of projects are relevant to animal welfare as well (I think doing work across cause areas is fairly common at RP, though this will likely decrease with time as the org gets larger and individual researchers become more specialized).
I’m happy to talk about my job, but unclear how valuable this is, given that a) “generalist researcher” is probably one of the most well-known of EA jobs and b) Rethink is probably one of the more public EA orgs, at least among orgs that aren’t primarily doing community building, and people interested can look at things like our AMAs (2019, 2020).
I’d be interested in this. Even though “generalist researcher” is well-known, I think it’s easy from the outside to get a distorted picture of the “content” of the job. Aside from this recent post, I don’t know of write ups about it off the top of my head (though there could be ones I don’t know about), and of course multiple writeups are useful since different people’s situations and experiences will be different.
I would love to hear more about your job, and it might be really useful for RP too since they’re hiring ;)
I’m currently interning at the Stanford Data Science for Social Good summer fellowship! My team works on using computer vision and Google Street View data to identify physical features of buildings and urban environments that might correlate with community well-being in U.S. cities.
I think the fellowship is good for students who are interested in getting into academic research and data science, so I’m happy to talk more about it if anyone’s interested.
Hi Evelyn, I would be very keen to hear about this! Especially your general thoughts on data science, as I’m not based in the US, though may apply for a US masters in future.
What kind of data science are you interested in? The DSSG fellowship is focused on data science for academic research.
I work in energy and infrastructure financing for a large bank in the UK, and don’t have a background in business or finance.
I’d love to hear more about your trajectory and work!
This interview with Reuben Munger is one of my favorite discussions with an energy/infrastructure financier who is having an impact on renewable energy markets in North America — it certainly led me to consider his corner of finance a fairly EA-friendly career path — in case it’s interesting to you or others: https://capitalallocators.com/podcast/private-capital-perspective/
I work as co-director of Apart Research, specifically with research management, AI safety research consulting, and field-building. I’m entrepreneurially focused.