Is the position location-based, or can it be worked remotely? What is the proposed compensation? What specifically are the other forums that would be under the purview of this position?
You would have to be able to commute to Berkeley. At this stage it unfortunately doesn’t make sense for us to consider a remote position.
Compensation is pretty variable and up for negotiation but would be something in the $70k - $120k range, with some wiggle room up if we think someone is a very good or very senior hire. The current team all work on relatively low salaries (~$60k), because none of us need super much money, but I don’t expect this to extend to our next two hires. We sadly can’t really pay industry market rates for top programmers, which are in the $200k range, but I care about giving people enough money to feel comfortable.
Mostly the same people that fund other community building orgs. EA Grants, BERI and individual donors, and MIRI is also supporting us with some funds for working on the Agent Foundations forum.
Is the position location-based, or can it be worked remotely? What is the proposed compensation? What specifically are the other forums that would be under the purview of this position?
You would have to be able to commute to Berkeley. At this stage it unfortunately doesn’t make sense for us to consider a remote position.
Compensation is pretty variable and up for negotiation but would be something in the $70k - $120k range, with some wiggle room up if we think someone is a very good or very senior hire. The current team all work on relatively low salaries (~$60k), because none of us need super much money, but I don’t expect this to extend to our next two hires. We sadly can’t really pay industry market rates for top programmers, which are in the $200k range, but I care about giving people enough money to feel comfortable.
We are currently working on the Agent Foundations Forum (https://agentfoundations.org/) and are chatting with CEA about also developing the EA Forum (http://effective-altruism.com/).
Where does the funding come from to be able to spend something like 400k per year for the total payroll?
So far funding has come from CEA, BERI and Eric Rogstad
Mostly the same people that fund other community building orgs. EA Grants, BERI and individual donors, and MIRI is also supporting us with some funds for working on the Agent Foundations forum.