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# Expression of Interest at Epoch AI

- **Company:** Epoch AI
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-10-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/epoch-ai/137cb0dc-03a6-4747-b9dc-8255194daee2

## Job description

Our interdisciplinary team is constantly in search of talent that can add to our skill set, including in research, operations, engineering, data, and communications. Please submit an expression of interest if you are interested in working with us. We won’t scan applications on a regular basis, but we will reach out if there’s an open position we think you might be a good fit for.

Roles at Epoch AI

- Research roles (staff researchers, senior researchers and research managers) in diverse fields, such as economics, ML, and forecasting, among others.
- Operations roles (people, finance, or event operations, as well as generalists).
- Engineering roles (software engineers, ML engineers)
- Data roles (data analysts, data scientists, and similar).
- Communications (designer, editor)
- Please do apply if you have a skill set that you think would be valuable for Epoch AI, even if it doesn't fit well in the above categories! We are open to hiring for valuable roles we haven't yet thought of.

Epoch is fully remote, and we are able to hire in many countries. We welcome both full-time and part-time applicants for most roles, with a strong preference for full-time candidates. Email careers@epoch.ai if you have any questions.

Epoch AI is a research institute that investigates trends in machine learning and the economic consequences of AI. Our work informs policy-making at key government institutes and governance at leading industry AI labs.

You can learn more about our work in this summary dashboard or our blog.

Additional Information While we welcome applicants from all time zones, you may be expected to attend meetings during working hours between UTC-8 and UTC+1 time zones, where most of our staff are based.

Our benefits package varies by country, but we make every effort to ensure that it is equitable and high-quality. In most countries we offer medical insurance, life insurance, pension plan, unlimited PTO, 6 months of parental leave, paid work trips, flexible equipment spending, and salaries competitive with similar academic and non-profit organizations.

## About Epoch AI

Epoch AI is a research institute leading the investigation of artificial intelligence's trajectory and societal impact. Our mission is to develop a comprehensive, publicly accessible knowledge base on AI that informs policymakers, industry leaders, and society at large.

We strive to achieve both rigor and accessibility to our work, as exemplified by some of our most successful projects, including our database of AI models and our AI trends dashboard. Our expertise in AI is demonstrated by our body of research, including our work on compute trends (IJCN 2022), data scarcity (ICML 2024), and algorithmic progress (NeurIPS 2024). You can read more about our work and mission on our website and this Time profile.

## About Epoch AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Epoch AI is a data-first research nonprofit that investigates the trajectory, progress, and impact of artificial intelligence through empirical analysis, open databases, and independent model benchmarks.
- **Entity Type**: Private nonprofit research organization (relies on philanthropic funding and mission-aligned paid services)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first, global team; some roles listed in the Bay Area. No single public headquarters specified.
- **Founded**: 2021 (began as a group of volunteers; formally organized as Epoch AI following the success of their 2022 training-compute paper)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available in the sources reviewed

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI research, data analytics, benchmarking, and policy-oriented intelligence
- **Target customers**: Policymakers, journalists, AI developers, researchers, government agencies, large AI companies, nonprofits, and organizations affected by AI (including hardware, energy, and investment firms)
- **Mission**: "To improve society's understanding of the drivers, progress, and impact of artificial intelligence" — building a shared scientific foundation for thinking about AI, neutral to any specific agenda, so decisions about the technology are informed by the best available data

## Products & Services
- **FrontierMath**: A state-of-the-art private benchmark for testing frontier mathematical capabilities of AI models, commissioned by OpenAI. Epoch AI also runs pilots for software engineering and remote-work benchmarks.
- **AI Model Evaluations**: Independent, regular evaluations of publicly available models across domains, published on a public dashboard to illustrate capability trends.
- **AI Trend Databases**: Open-source intelligence program tracking AI models, training compute estimates, ML hardware, GPU clusters, AI data centers, and investment — the foundation of their research and public explainers.
- **Commissioned Research & Consulting**: Paid, mission-aligned services for companies, nonprofits, and government bodies, including data collection, benchmark development, model evaluations, and private strategic reports (e.g., compute trend analysis for UK ARIA, biological sequence model analysis for Sentinel Bio).
- **Interactive Visualizations & Explainers**: Public tools and analyses that distill complex AI trends into accessible formats for a broad audience.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable — independent nonprofit; not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly disclosed; supported by philanthropic donations, revenue from commissioned research, and public-good funding
- **Notable Partners/Clients**: OpenAI, Google, Stanford's AI Index, UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT), UK ARIA, Sentinel Bio, Electric Power Research Institute
- **Growth Signals**: Grew from a volunteer collective (2021) into a multidisciplinary, global team; authored one of the most-cited papers in the field, *Compute Trends Across Three Eras of Machine Learning*; gained recognition for FrontierMath; expanded into model evaluations and public dashboards; routinely engaged by major AI labs and government agencies

## Competitive Advantages
- **Neutral, data-first approach**: Explicitly non-partisan and "agenda-free," producing evidence that serious AI discussions start from — a differentiator in a hype-heavy field
- **Pioneering compute-trend tracking**: Among the first to systematically monitor AI training compute, inference-compute scaling, and scaling feasibility through 2030
- **Trusted by both sides**: Works with frontier AI labs (OpenAI, Google) and government bodies (UK DSIT, UK ARIA), indicating credibility across industry and policy
- **Open by default**: Publishes most research and data publicly, building a compounding reputation and research ecosystem
- **FrontierMath benchmark**: The state-of-the-art benchmark for frontier math capabilities, giving Epoch AI unique leverage in model evaluation

## Strategic Focus
- Tracking AI capabilities over time and maintaining independent evaluations of new models
- Investigating the drivers and bottlenecks of AI progress, including whether scaling can continue through 2030 and the feasibility of decentralized training
- Measuring and forecasting AI's economic and societal impact (e.g., automation of remote work, economy-wide modeling)
- Expanding benchmark development and partnerships with AI companies, governments, and adjacent sectors (energy, hardware, investment)
- Building out the public dashboard and interactive tools to make research accessible

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first, global team**: Roles are listed as full-time or part-time remote, with some positions in the Bay Area — flexibility across research, engineering, and operations
- **Mission-driven work**: Directly contribute to society's understanding of AI, with a "curiosity-driven" and multidisciplinary culture
- **High-impact exposure**: Work alongside researchers, engineers, and policymakers shaping AI discourse; past partners include OpenAI and UK DSIT
- **Culture**: The team explicitly values caring for each other and taking wellbeing seriously; transparency and open communication are core principles
- **Variety of roles**: Openings span research (Data Scientist, Researcher), engineering (Software Engineer, Benchmarking), operations (People Ops, IT & Security), and communications — plus rolling expressions of interest for interdisciplinary talent

## Sources
1. [epoch.ai](https://epoch.ai/)
2. [epoch.ai/about](https://epoch.ai/about)
3. [epoch.ai/about/careers](https://epoch.ai/about/careers)
4. [epoch.ai/latest/what-is-epoch](https://epoch.ai/latest/what-is-epoch)
5. [jobs.lever.co/epoch-ai](https://jobs.lever.co/epoch-ai)

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