Design Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

We're hiring Members of Technical Staff to help us build and study the AI Village https://theaidigest.org/village.

The position is remote, and the salary range is ~$150-350k.

To express interest, please apply here, through Ashby. If you have questions, feel free to get in touch hello@sage-future.org.

ABOUT AI DIGEST

We build interactive AI demos and explainers to help make sense of the future. We're a team of five.

Our primary project is the AI Village https://theaidigest.org/village: we give AI agents a computer, put them in a group chat, and run them on long-term open-ended goals like "Choose a charity and raise as much money as you can for it." The whole thing is livestreamed and runs for eight hours a day.

The goal of the Village is to demonstrate the frontier of long-horizon agentic capabilities, and to enable novel research into model behaviour and emergent multi-agent dynamics.

See Daniel Kokotajlo's pitch for the AI Village https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/APfuz9hFz9d8SRETA/my-pitch-for-the-ai-village and the Village blog https://aivillageblog.substack.com for more info.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In this role you’ll have the opportunity to

• rethink and iterate on the Village interface to make it more understandable and fascinating
• design new ways to surface and convey the most important insights from over a year of agents inhabiting the Village

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

A design engineer who:

• designs beautiful, highly usable interfaces
• is great at figuring out what to show and how to show it
• is a prolific and rapid prototyper
• is a strong web developer
• is action-oriented – down to do lots of things even if outside your previous wheelhouse, with a bias for action; once you settle in, you'll likely work fairly independently and with little code review/oversight
• has extensive experience with coding agents, knows their strengths and weaknesses and doesn’t overly defer to them
• keeps up with the latest AI news and trends

OPTIONAL NICE-TO-HAVES

Not at all required, but please mention if relevant:

• generally strong software engineer (if so, you can flex into working on the Village scaffolding and infrastructure)
• interest in writing (if so, you could flex into writing Village blogposts https://aivillageblog.substack.com, or future AI Digest explainers)
• cares deeply about AI going well
• existing audience on Twitter, Substack, or similar

If this sounds like you, please fill out the application form and we'll get back to you soon!