I’m potentially interested in the Research Engineer position on the Alignment Team, but I’m currently 3 months into a 6 month grant from LTFF to reorient my career from general machine learning to AI safety specifically. My current plan is to keep doing solo work () until the last month of my grant period then begin applying to AI safety work at places like Anthropic, Redwood Research, Open AI, and Deepmind.
Do you think there’s a significant advantage to applying soon vs 3 months from now?
Looking into it, I’ll try to get you a better answer soon. My current best guess is that you should apply 3 months from now. This runs an increased risk that we’ll have filled all our positions / closed our applications, but also improved chances of making it through because you’ll know more things and be better prepared for the interviews.
(Among other things I’m looking into: would it be reasonable to apply now and mention that you’d prefer to be interviewed in 3 months.)
Update: I think you should apply now and mention somewhere that you’d prefer to be interviewed in 3 months because in those 3 months you will be doing <whatever it is you’re planning to do> and it will help with interviewing.
I’m potentially interested in the Research Engineer position on the Alignment Team, but I’m currently 3 months into a 6 month grant from LTFF to reorient my career from general machine learning to AI safety specifically. My current plan is to keep doing solo work () until the last month of my grant period then begin applying to AI safety work at places like Anthropic, Redwood Research, Open AI, and Deepmind.
Do you think there’s a significant advantage to applying soon vs 3 months from now?
Looking into it, I’ll try to get you a better answer soon. My current best guess is that you should apply 3 months from now. This runs an increased risk that we’ll have filled all our positions / closed our applications, but also improved chances of making it through because you’ll know more things and be better prepared for the interviews.
(Among other things I’m looking into: would it be reasonable to apply now and mention that you’d prefer to be interviewed in 3 months.)
Thanks Rohin. I also feel that interviewing after my 3 more months of independent work is probably the correct call.
Update: I think you should apply now and mention somewhere that you’d prefer to be interviewed in 3 months because in those 3 months you will be doing <whatever it is you’re planning to do> and it will help with interviewing.