Budapest AI Safety Technical Lead application form early 2024
We are currently looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team of Budapest AI Safety. In this form you can apply for the position.
Selection process: We expect to have 2 or 3 rounds. First round being this application form. Applicants continuning to the next stage will have one or two additional interviews/work tasks.
Salary: 9-12 USD per hour (pre-tax). For exceptional candidates we might be able to offer a higher rate up to an additional 1-10 USD per hour.
(Income tax in Hungary for people under 25 is 0%, above is 33%. For students above 25 years old it is 15%, but you will have to double-check this with your accountant.)
Workload: This is a part-time position. We expect to make an offer for between 0.25 FTE to 0.6 FTE, but are unlikely to offer more than 15 hours per week for the first 6 months. If our courses get an exceptionally high application rate, we might be able to offer additional hours.
A full time role has 25 days per year of paid vacation, accordingly a part time position would have between ~6 to ~15 days of paid vacation per year.
Contract period: Starting around early March, you’d have a contract for 6 months with a 2 month-long trial period after which your performance will be evaluated. Around month 4-5, we will evaluate your progress again, based on which we can offer you a contract for an additional 6 months.
Skills/experience/responsonsibilities for this role:
Essential:
- Ability to give valuable career advice and help people new to technical AI Safety reseach orient in the field
- Facilitating AGISF
- Supporting volunteers
- Leading student-level research projects
- Contributing to our newsletter section on technical AIS
Desirable:
- Being able to support the post-AGISF part of the AI Safety pipeline by facilitating advanced courses and leading small research projects
- Research experience in Alignment
- Public speaking experience
Depending on the amount of your work hours and the capacity of the rest of the team, you might also be asked to do some operations-related work in a smaller capacity, such as:
- Evaluating applications, sorting people into groups based on their availability, supporting our mentors, booking and preparing venues with food and reading materials, etc.)
- Marketing our programs (eg. marketing on social media, reaching out to professors and academic dormitories, giving a short “pitch” of our program to university classes, tabling, distributing leaflets, etc.)
An ideal candidate:
- Is passionate about AI Safety
- Knowledgeable about the main threat models and technical research agendas within AIS and the organisations working on them
- Has good interpersonal skills
Location: Budapest, Hungary or remote (please read the additional information below)
If we are unable to find a suitable candidate we will consider hiring someone fully remote, so feel free to apply for this role even if you are only interested in a remote position. In this case, we will hold onto your application until we have evaluated candidates who are based in Budapest or are willing to move here. If we don’t find a suitable candidate we will start processing fully remote applications. If you are only interested in a remote position, for now it’s enough if you answer the first 4 questions of this form. If we start evaluating remote candidates, we will notify you to answer the rest of the questions.
More about this role:
You will be working closely with Budapest AI Safety founder Gergő Gáspár and other members of the team. We expect that about 50-60% of your work hours will be “on-site” (either holding sessions or coworking with team members), with the rest of your work hours being possible to do online. The first 2 weeks of onboarding will be 100% in-person.
Budapest AI Safety Technical Lead application form early 2024
We are currently looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team of Budapest AI Safety. In this form you can apply for the position.
Selection process: We expect to have 2 or 3 rounds. First round being this application form. Applicants continuning to the next stage will have one or two additional interviews/work tasks.
Salary: 9-12 USD per hour (pre-tax). For exceptional candidates we might be able to offer a higher rate up to an additional 1-10 USD per hour.
(Income tax in Hungary for people under 25 is 0%, above is 33%. For students above 25 years old it is 15%, but you will have to double-check this with your accountant.)
Workload: This is a part-time position. We expect to make an offer for between 0.25 FTE to 0.6 FTE, but are unlikely to offer more than 15 hours per week for the first 6 months. If our courses get an exceptionally high application rate, we might be able to offer additional hours.
A full time role has 25 days per year of paid vacation, accordingly a part time position would have between ~6 to ~15 days of paid vacation per year.
Contract period: Starting around early March, you’d have a contract for 6 months with a 2 month-long trial period after which your performance will be evaluated. Around month 4-5, we will evaluate your progress again, based on which we can offer you a contract for an additional 6 months.
Skills/experience/responsonsibilities for this role:
Essential:
- Ability to give valuable career advice and help people new to technical AI Safety reseach orient in the field
- Facilitating AGISF
- Supporting volunteers
- Leading student-level research projects
- Contributing to our newsletter section on technical AIS
Desirable:
- Being able to support the post-AGISF part of the AI Safety pipeline by facilitating advanced courses and leading small research projects
- Research experience in Alignment
- Public speaking experience
Depending on the amount of your work hours and the capacity of the rest of the team, you might also be asked to do some operations-related work in a smaller capacity, such as:
- Evaluating applications, sorting people into groups based on their availability, supporting our mentors, booking and preparing venues with food and reading materials, etc.)
- Marketing our programs (eg. marketing on social media, reaching out to professors and academic dormitories, giving a short “pitch” of our program to university classes, tabling, distributing leaflets, etc.)
An ideal candidate:
- Is passionate about AI Safety
- Knowledgeable about the main threat models and technical research agendas within AIS and the organisations working on them
- Has good interpersonal skills
Location: Budapest, Hungary or remote (please read the additional information below)
If we are unable to find a suitable candidate we will consider hiring someone fully remote, so feel free to apply for this role even if you are only interested in a remote position. In this case, we will hold onto your application until we have evaluated candidates who are based in Budapest or are willing to move here. If we don’t find a suitable candidate we will start processing fully remote applications. If you are only interested in a remote position, for now it’s enough if you answer the first 4 questions of this form. If we start evaluating remote candidates, we will notify you to answer the rest of the questions.
More about this role:
You will be working closely with Budapest AI Safety founder Gergő Gáspár and other members of the team. We expect that about 50-60% of your work hours will be “on-site” (either holding sessions or coworking with team members), with the rest of your work hours being possible to do online. The first 2 weeks of onboarding will be 100% in-person.
Deadline to apply: 2024 February 12.
Apply here.
With any questions, please write to gergo@eahungary.com