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title: 'Writer & Editor at Epoch AI'
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# Writer & Editor at Epoch AI

- **Company:** Epoch AI
- **Location:** Bay Area
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/epoch-ai/55040488-07ec-42c0-b33d-50d383f54935

## Job description

Epoch AI is looking for a founding Writer & Editor as we launch a new media team to bring our research to a wider audience. The role will involve pitching, writing, and editing pieces for a general audience as part of our new media program.

## About the role

We are looking for a Writer & Editor to produce excellent journalism on AI for a general audience. Your day-to-day activities will include pitching and discussing ideas for articles with the media team and other researchers, writing your own pieces and editing other writers’ copy. An ideal candidate has spent multiple years writing and editing at a major publication and has worked closely with many different writers. As a founding member of the media team, will have substantial input into the editorial direction of a well-resourced and ambitious publication helping the public to make sense of AI. This is an in-person role based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The media team will work together in person for at least the first six months of the program. We invite anyone who is interested to apply, regardless of background, experience, or credentials. Please do not include a cover letter, photograph, or headshot of yourself, or any personal information that is not relevant to the role for which you're applying (including marital status, age, identity traits, etc.). Applications are rolling.

## Key responsibilities

- Edit drafts from our researchers and media team into clear, engaging pieces for a general audience
- Write first drafts from outlines and ideas supplied by the team
- Set and uphold editorial standards across the media program
- Help the program publish consistently, starting at at least one piece per week

## What we're looking for

- 5+ years as an editor at a major publication, e.g. in legacy news media
- Excellent writing of your own, shown by published work for a general audience
- Experience editing for many different writers and improving their work quickly
- Ability to make technical material clear without dumbing it down
- Entrepreneurial spirit as a founding member of the team
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, or willing to relocate

Prior experience covering AI, science, economics, finance, or other technical beats, and familiarity with the AI ecosystem would be a plus, but are not expected. Interest in learning matters more than expertise.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Annual salary between $150,000 and $180,000 USD, or more for exceptional candidates.
- The opportunity to help build a new media team from the ground up, meaningfully shape its direction and share in the upside.
- Competitive benefits program, including comprehensive health insurance, life insurance, and retirement plan.
- Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific annual limit, with 30 days PTO per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and 4 months paid parental leave for permanent staff with at least 12 months of tenure (prorated parental leave if less than 12 months).
- A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities, including unlimited spending on AI tools, subject to regulations and manager approval.
- Optional paid work trips, such as relevant conferences.
- Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more.

Additional Information This role is based in person in the San Francisco Bay Area, and team members will work together on-site for at least the first six months of the media program. We are not able to consider remote applicants for this role. Please submit all of your application materials in English and note that we require professional level English proficiency. Epoch is committed to building an inclusive, equitable, and supportive community for you to thrive and do your best work. We’re committed to finding the best people for our team, so please don’t hesitate to apply for a role regardless of your age, gender identity/expression, political identity, personal preferences, physical abilities, veteran status, neurodiversity or any other background. Please emailcareers@epoch.ai if you have any questions about this role, accessibility requests, or if you want to request an extension to the application deadline. However, we will not review applications submitted to this email address; please submit your application through the link on this page.

## About Epoch AI

Epoch AI is a research institute that investigates trends in machine learning and the economic consequences of AI. 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 body of research includes 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 in 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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