We are a nonprofit raising policymaker awareness about AI risks, aiming to slow potentially dangerous research and accelerate technical safety. We have ambitious goals and need to move fast. Come work with us! About Palisade

Senior role, remote full-time, your time zone is between UTC-3 and UTC+5

As a Senior SWE, you will build AI risk demos and research infrastructure. You will ship features daily in a tight loop with the stakeholders and be responsible for our technical excellence.

What you'll do

1. Engineering
   • Build and ship AI risk demos in the span of days
   • Maintain and improve our core technical stack
2. Technical Leadership
   • Lead technical architecture decisions and establish engineering best practices
   • Mentor junior engineers and review code
3. Collaboration
   • Work closely with researchers to implement their requirements
   • Coordinate with demo users and external collaborators

See the kind of work we do in About Palisade.

Our collaboration process

• We post daily statuses for each other to keep in sync regarding our directions. Each project has a daily sync, and there’s a weekly lab demo to show off our results.
• We propose new ideas or directions by writing up a doc, sharing it, and getting comments. This enables async communication.
• Our median response time to each other is in hours, not minutes; we work in an independent and self-directed fashion. Your supervisor helps you maintain direction; colleagues help with the implementation; you keep track of your tasks and milestones.
• We offer high intellectual freedom and value curiosity. You are welcome to challenge anything we do.

What you’ll need

Experience level

• 6+ years of relevant technical experience
• Proven track record of leading complex engineering projects to completion