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Preamble

CompanyPreamble
Websitepreamble.com
Role taxonomyFull-stack / Product Engineering
SpecialtiesFull-stack
LocationRemote (US)
Salary
Apply viaApplication linkhttps://www.preamble.com/jobs/full-stack-engineer · careers@preamble.com
Hiring notes
TechReact
RegionsUS
Posted byupwardbound
PostedMay 3, 2022
SourceView on Hacker News ↗

Original posting

Preamble | https://preamble.com | Remote (US and Europe) We're primarily hiring a Full-Stack Engineer, especially if you have React expertise. • We work on A.I. safety and ethics with the long-term goal of helping with value alignment & safety for Artificial General Intelligence (A.G.I.) systems. Our Chief Scientist, Prof. Dylan Hadfield-Menell, did his Ph.D. with Prof. Stuart Russell on the topics covered in Human Compatible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Compatible • In the near term we are working on A.I. value alignment for NLP systems used in social media content ranking as well as in Natural Language Generation. • We are closely aligned with the Effective Altruism movement and we are on-track to be the first company to legally adopt the Windfall Clause https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/windfall-clause/ which will legally mandate us to donate increasingly large parts of our profit to charity if or when we become very large. • We have a nonprofit arm https://www.preambleforgood.org/ with the mission "To attempt to maximize the risk-adjusted wellbeing of all sentient entities". We have donated to: - The Arms Control Association - Invincible Wellbeing (which works to alleviate wild animal suffering) - The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security - The Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy - An upcoming applied-philosophy podcast seeking to contribute to meaningful new discussions on the fundamental nature of moral good • We are an equal-opportunity employer and two of our team members are veterans. • careers@preamble.com • https://www.preamble.com/jobs/full-stack-engineer