Aspiring EA researchers should consider taking a shot at winning federal bounties.
A lot of EAs are relatively young and EA org jobs are competitive. Challenge.gov list prizes you can compete for by developing new products or proposing strategic plans. Options for engineers, social scientists, and communications type to build career capital, possibly win money, and make the US government better at its job.
I wrote about the history and future of gain-of-function research regulation in the United States for Tablet magazine. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/trump-nih-stop-funding-engineered-viruses
Aspiring EA researchers should consider taking a shot at winning federal bounties.
A lot of EAs are relatively young and EA org jobs are competitive. Challenge.gov list prizes you can compete for by developing new products or proposing strategic plans. Options for engineers, social scientists, and communications type to build career capital, possibly win money, and make the US government better at its job.
Current prizes include a ton of AI-related stuff but also market analysis for environmental technology and math education programs.