I would apply if the rate were more like USD $50/hour, considering the high cost of living in Berkeley. As it is this would be something like a 76% pay cut compared to the minimum ML engineer pay at Google and below typical grad student pay, and require an uncommon level of frugality.
All in all, we’re expecting most of our hires to come from outside the US where the cost of living is substantially lower. If lower wages are a deal-breaker for anyone but you’re still interested in this kind of work, please flag this in the form. The application should be low-effort enough that it’s still worth applying.
Hello, I agree with Jesse as the budget they have is really good for hiring capable alignment researchers here in Asia (I’m based currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand) or any other place where cost is extremely low compared back there in the West.
More than a 76% pay cut, because a lot of the compensation at Google is equity+bonus+benefits; the $133k minimum listed at your link is just base salary.
I would apply if the rate were more like USD $50/hour, considering the high cost of living in Berkeley. As it is this would be something like a 76% pay cut compared to the minimum ML engineer pay at Google and below typical grad student pay, and require an uncommon level of frugality.
Hey Thomas, I wrote about our reasoning for this in response to Winston:
Hello, I agree with Jesse as the budget they have is really good for hiring capable alignment researchers here in Asia (I’m based currently in Chiang Mai, Thailand) or any other place where cost is extremely low compared back there in the West.
Good luck on this project team Dev Interp.
More than a 76% pay cut, because a lot of the compensation at Google is equity+bonus+benefits; the $133k minimum listed at your link is just base salary.