Remote Job at Epoch AI – 7 Positions

Applications are invited from interested and qualified candidates to apply for the Remote Job at Epoch AI in US.

Epoch AI is a San Francisco-based research nonprofit founded in 2022 that studies the trajectory and future of artificial intelligence. Their mission is to ground the discussion of AI in empirical data by tracking machine learning progress, evaluating frontier models, and forecasting the economic impact of transformative AI

Working at Epoch AI offers a fully remote work environment with a strong focus on scientific integrity, transparency, and impactful research. Key benefits include Epoch AI Careers and operational perks.

Individuals interested in the Job at Epoch AI should review the details, requirements, and application process provided below.

People Operations Associate / Manager

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $95,000–$139,000 USD
• Category: Tech
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Description:

We are looking for a People Operations Associate or Manager to support and grow our team. You’ll report to our COO, soon our Head of People, and work closely with the rest of our people operations team to onboard and offboard team members, support staff, and keep our organization running smoothly. We will calibrate the level (Associate or Manager) based primarily on past experience.

Key Responsibilities

Together with our current people operations associate, you would:

• Own employee & contractor onboarding and offboarding processes.
• Serve as a main point of contact for staff support: benefits, payroll, policies, and other concerns.
• Help maintain the internal handbook containing staff guidance, policies, and processes.
• Manage relationships with PEOs, EORs, and other HR service providers.
• Track employee and contractor contracts and amend them as required.
• Manage employment visa sponsorship processes.
• Coordinate performance reviews.
• Track compliance requirements across jurisdictions where we employ staff.

At the Manager level, you would additionally:

• Own the HR and staff support functions end-to-end, including designing (not just executing) processes and policies.
• Drive strategic decisions on HR providers, benefits design, and compliance approach as we scale.
• Shape organizational culture and staff experience initiatives proactively.
• Mentor our current people operations associate and provide supporting management capacity until we hire a Head of People. 

Qualifications and Requirements:

• An operations mindset: identifying issues, tracking many fast-moving tasks, prioritizing, and implementing solutions efficiently.
• Systems-orientation: passionate about optimizing processes and eliminating inefficiencies.
• Ownership: taking initiative, proactively identifying issues and solutions, voicing concerns unaddressed by the team.
• Great communication skills and comfort with open, direct feedback.
• 2+ years of experience in people operations or HR (Manager level: 5+ years of experience in operations, including people management experience)
• Strong organization and attention to detail.
• Comfort with remote work.
• Prior familiarity with and interest in Epoch’s mission.

If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $95,000–$139,000 USD at the Associate level and $115,000 – $153,000 at the Manager level, depending on seniority and location. 
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours. 
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• 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. 
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

Researcher, Benchmark Reviews

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $100,000 – $200,000 USD
• Category: Tech
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

Epoch AI is looking for a Researcher to develop and publish critiques and reviews of AI benchmarks. 

About the role

We are looking for a Researcher to produce a steady stream of benchmark reviews. You will closely analyze a wide variety of new benchmarks, evaluate their methodologies, and write up your findings in public-facing research. You should be comfortable using coding agents to help you, without delegating your judgment.

Key Responsibilities

• Review benchmarks: Assess a new benchmark at least every two weeks. You’ll evaluate their methodology and what a “good performance” would imply about AI capabilities.
• Publish and maintain reports: Write up public-facing reports on new benchmarks and periodically update them as new versions release and models make progress.
• Dig into data: Examine individual tasks within benchmarks in detail, using coding agents to assist while retaining your own critical oversight.

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Qualifications and Requirements:

• You excel at written communication. Your first drafts rarely need much polishing; they’re clear and publication-quality with minimal revision.
• You think critically about research methodologies. You have strong opinions about what benchmarks and evaluations should look like, and can recognize when something seems wrong. 
• You’re already familiar with existing AI benchmarks, their methodologies, strengths, and weaknesses. You have ideas for new benchmarks that don’t exist yet, but should. 
• You’re comfortable working with dense data. You’ll often be breaking down benchmarks into their component parts, which can be overwhelming without familiarity.

Nice to have

• Experience writing about AI/ML for a public or research audience.
• Hands-on experience running or building AI evaluations.

If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $100,000 and $200,000 USD, depending on location, seniority, and experience.
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours.
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• 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.
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

Researcher, Evaluations

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $115,000 – $200,000 USD
• Category: Tech
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

We’re seeking a Researcher to lead a new effort evaluating how well frontier models perform on the kinds of open-ended tasks that make up real office work. You will curate a suite of realistic tasks to serve as a benchmark, design the grading rubrics for AI performance, and run newly-released models through the suite, assessing their performance both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The focus is on how models handle messy, real-world work rather than on scientific knowledge or programming ability. The role makes heavy use of AI tools, but strong software engineering experience is not required. Comfort setting up AI-assisted automated workflows is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and curate an evaluation suite. Find real-world tasks that serve as challenging tests for practical AI capabilities, and update the tasks over time as AI capabilities evolve. Devise rubrics for evaluating AI performance.
• Evaluate AI systems. Regularly evaluate new, notable AI models and products on the task suite. Update tasks and rubrics to reflect the changing landscape of AI capabilities.
• Communicate your research. Create public-facing reports, blog posts, and data visualizations with your observations. Ensure the evaluations feed into our other research topics and help keep our team informed. 
• Conduct data analysis. Analyze evaluation results and compare models across tasks. 
• Improve the process. You might automate parts of the workflow, and build out parts of the evaluation into standalone benchmarks. 

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Analytical thinking. You conduct experiments with rigor and care, making sure that findings are well-supported by evidence.
• Grounded, skeptical mentality. You form your own well-reasoned view of what an AI system can do, distinguishing practical capabilities from hype.
• Comfort with AI agents and tools. You have experience working with AI agents in the course of your own work, and are comfortable delegating tasks.
• Familiarity with AI benchmarks and evaluations. You follow AI capabilities at least casually and have opinions on what benchmarks do and don’t tell us.
• Research and data-analysis experience, including enough comfort with light coding to analyze your own results.
• Strong written communication skills: You can convey nuanced observations clearly and precisely.

Nice to have

• Experience testing frontier models and writing assessments of their capabilities
• Coding skills, including python proficiency

If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $115,000 – $200,000 USD, depending on location and experience. 
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours. 
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• 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. 
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

Software Engineer, Benchmarking

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $125,000 – $200,000 USD
• Category: Tech
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Description:

Epoch AI is looking for a Software Engineer who will help us evaluate frontier AI models, enabling researchers, developers, and policymakers to better understand AI development. The role will involve running and maintaining our benchmarking infrastructure as well as contributing to the development of brand new benchmarks.

About the role

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.).

We are looking for a Software Engineer to help us expand and develop our AI Benchmarking Hub. You will work closely with the rest of the benchmarking team to run and maintain benchmarks, integrate with AI providers, set up existing benchmarks to run on our infrastructure, help design and develop brand new benchmarks, and facilitate internal experiments.

This role is fully remote, and we are able to hire in many countries. We invite anyone who is interested to apply, regardless of background, experience, or credentials.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement benchmarks: Implement AI benchmarks within our evaluation infrastructure (primarily using the Inspect library) to expand the suite of capabilities we track. Develop our existing suite of benchmarks so we can quickly and painlessly evaluate new model releases.
• Develop new benchmarks: Contribute to the development of brand new benchmarks. You will have the opportunity to pitch and prototype your own ideas in addition to helping out with existing projects.
• Collaborate: Work closely with researchers, analysts, and other engineers at Epoch AI to ensure evaluation data and outputs are accurate, insightful, and effectively integrated into our research products and publications.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Solid engineering skills: A strong software engineering background with more than two years of professional experience building and maintaining complex systems. You are expected to regularly contribute high-quality, robust, and maintainable code and be comfortable diving deep into existing codebases and infrastructure.
• Ideas and creativity: Candidates should be able to generate their own ideas for new benchmarks, experiments, novel things to try, and other projects.
• Mission-driven: You’re motivated by Epoch AI’s mission to provide rigorous, independent insight into key trends in AI. You want to deliver public, trustworthy evaluations of AI capabilities on challenging benchmarks, empowering researchers, policymakers, and the wider public to make well-informed decisions about AI.

AI domain expertise or cybersecurity experience are strong pluses but not required. (This includes hands-on experience running LLM evaluations, familiarity with evaluation frameworks like Inspect, as well as a solid grasp of current AI trends.) Solid engineering skills and an ability to learn quickly matter more than direct background in these areas.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $125,000 and $200,000 USD. 
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours and schedules for most roles.
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• Generous paid time off (PTO), including no specific limit on PTO with 30 days per year protected, unlimited personal and sick leave, and up to 6 months (combination of paid + unpaid) parental leave for permanent staff. 
• A flexible and generous expense policy for you to spend on equipment and a large range of productivity tools or learning/development opportunities you might find valuable, subject to regulations and manager approval.
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

Communications Specialist

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $95,000 and $140,000 USD
• Category: Tech
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

We are looking for a Communications Specialist to help expand the reach and impact of Epoch AI’s research. You will report to our Lead Editor, Elliot Stewart, and work with researchers across the organization on the day-to-day execution of Epoch’s communications. Your work will be key to making sure our research reaches the people making decisions about AI. 

Key Responsibilities

• Media and outreach: under the direction of the Lead Editor, manage the logistics of press inquiries and of podcast and speaking outreach for Epoch researchers, including setting up calls, coordinating availability, and sending follow-ups. Monitor the accuracy of our largely automated media contacts list.
• Newsletter and short-form copy: working with the Lead Editor, own the production workflow for the Epoch Brief newsletter, including formatting, scheduling, link-checking, and distribution, and draft first passes of routine copy such as event descriptions and speaker bios.
• Social media: draft and schedule posts on X and LinkedIn using Typefully or an equivalent tool, and help monitor replies and comments, flagging anything that warrants a response from a researcher, the Lead Editor, or Epoch leadership.
• Content updates & optimization: implement approved content changes to epoch.ai, particularly to evergreen pages such as our about and topic overview pages, including changes that come out of our SEO auditing and optimization workflow, and flag content that needs refreshing or correcting.
• Campaigns: implement paid ad campaigns on X, LinkedIn, and Google that leadership have developed and approved, covering scheduling, budget tracking, liaising with platform reps, and monitoring performance. Propose and implement adjustments to targeting, creative rotation, and budget allocation.
• Growing into more: as you get up to speed, there is room to take on drafting more substantial content, as well as editing and proofreading, in collaboration with the Lead Editor.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• At least two years of professional experience, some of which is in communications, media relations, marketing, or a closely related area.
• Strong writing: you can produce clean, accurate short-form copy quickly, and write convincingly in an established voice.
• Experience engaging with media, whether pitching, coordinating press, or running outreach.
• Familiarity with AI research, to write accurately about Epoch outputs. 
• Excellent organization and follow-through: much of this role is keeping many small processes moving reliably, without being chased.
• Reliability owning the execution of predetermined workflows, and genuine enthusiasm for this mix of coordination, logistics, and writing.
• Working hours in the Americas (roughly UTC-8 to UTC-3).

Nice to have

• Experience in a combined communications and operations role at a research institute, think tank, or nonprofit.
• Hands-on experience running paid social or search campaigns and reporting on their performance.
• Familiarity with newsletter tooling, social scheduling tools such as Typefully, basic CMS work, or SEO and AI-search (AIO) optimization.
• Existing engagement with the AI research, safety, or policy landscape.

If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $95,000 and $140,000 USD.
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours. 
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• 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. 
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more. All staff, independently of where they are based, have access to the office for at least 20 days each year.

Researcher / Senior Researcher

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $100,000 – $160,000 USD
• Category: Tech
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

We’re seeking Researchers and Senior Researchers to help us improve society’s understanding of AI capabilities and their trajectories. Key activities will include helping define our future research directions and kick off new investigations into the most important trends in AI.

Key Responsibilities

Data and Trends Researchers

• Conduct research on frontier AI datacenters, AI supply chains, polling, benchmark analysis, earnings growth of AI companies, and AI models.
• Write data insights, reports, and articles to communicate your research. 
• Help create and maintain data sets related to AI. 
• Team-specific requirements: Experience with data analysis techniques like bootstrapping, handling uncertainty, regressions etc.
• Team-specific nice-to-haves: Prior research experience in one or more of GPU manufacturing and design, data centers, AI infrastructure, geospatial data analysis, AI governance, running surveys, forecasting, or sell-side analysis. 

Insights Researchers

• Pitching and developing new research projects; kick-off new investigations into the most important questions in AI.
• Making estimates and forecasts based on limited information for quantities like compute resources, power supply curves, or future capabilities.
• Evaluating technical claims to assess whether reported benchmark scores, training costs, or algorithmic improvements are credible. For example, what should we think of a lab’s reports of achieving IMO gold, or claims about DeepSeek-R1’s training costs?
• Experience with basic data analysis techniques like bootstrapping, handling uncertainty, regressions etc.
• Team-specific requirements: Prior research experience in at least one part of the AI development pipeline (hardware, datacenters, benchmarks, AI research, etc.).

Benchmarking and Evaluations Researchers

• Create new benchmarks: Contribute to the development of brand new benchmarks. You will have the opportunity to pitch and prototype your own ideas in addition to helping out with existing projects.
• Analyze benchmark results: Run benchmarks on frontier models and analyze the results, both quantitatively and qualitatively. 
• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with researchers, analysts, and other engineers at Epoch AI to ensure evaluation data and outputs are accurate, insightful, and effectively integrated into our research products and publications.
• Team-specific requirements: Prior research experience in quantitative or technical topics. Familiarity with AI benchmarking and some coding experience is a plus but not required.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Analytical thinking. You conduct experiments with rigor and care, making sure that findings are well-supported by evidence.
• Grounded, skeptical mentality. You form your own well-reasoned view of what an AI system can do, distinguishing practical capabilities from hype.
• Comfort with AI agents and tools. You have experience working with AI agents in the course of your own work, and are comfortable delegating tasks.
• Familiarity with AI benchmarks and evaluations. You follow AI capabilities at least casually and have opinions on what benchmarks do and don’t tell us.
• Research and data-analysis experience, including enough comfort with light coding to analyze your own results.
• Strong written communication skills: You can convey nuanced observations clearly and precisely.

Nice to have

• Curiosity and learning speed: You can rapidly absorb new information across diverse domains and stay at the forefront of a fast-moving field. You seek out new research and enjoy diving into unfamiliar topics.
• Estimation and forecasting skills: You’re comfortable making quantitative estimates with limited information and reason clearly about uncertainty.
• Familiarity with AI trends, including Epoch’s existing research. 
• Strong coding skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Outstanding candidates might have prior experience in research similar to Epoch’s field, experience in at least one part of the AI development pipeline (hardware, datacenters, benchmarks) or relevant experience in related organizations. 

If you don’t tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual salary between $100,000 and $160,000 USD for Researchers; between $150,000 and $250,000 USD for Senior Researchers; more for exceptional candidates. 
• Salaries are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on one-year average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours and schedules for most roles; paid access to local coworking space as desired. 
• Competitive global benefits program, including a comprehensive health insurance program—including supplemental benefits specific to a local country, as available and mandated by local law—and life insurance and a pension plan, if applicable in your country.
• 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.
• Paid work trips, including 3 staff retreats per year and relevant conferences.
• Access to our very well-equipped offices in Berkeley, California, including paid meals, snacks, gym, and more.

Data Scientist (Contract)

Specifications:

• Full Time | Remote
• Eligibility: Global
• Location: US | Abroad. See other Remote Jobs
• Salary Range: $30-40 USD per hour
• Category: Tech
• Job Alerts: To receive Job Alerts on WhatsApp, Click HERE

Description:

Epoch is seeking part-time data scientists to assist with our AI research efforts. This role involves reviewing technical literature, tracking benchmark data, compiling technical infrastructure details, and analyzing various sources to build comprehensive insights about AI models, data centers, and companies.

About the Position

This is an independent contractor role, and your main responsibility will be gathering data on the inputs, impacts, and details of AI, as well as carrying out analysis of the gathered data. This may consist of reading recent machine learning papers to extract key details about model architectures, tracking benchmark scores, processing satellite images and permits to track data centers, or analyzing financial disclosures as well as news media for information about AI companies. In terms of analysis, you will work with our research team to create Data Insights and other products.

Your day-to-day activities will be finding and reading a variety of sources, accurately extracting and compiling important details, and reporting on and discussing your findings with your supervisor. An ideal candidate for this role would have an excellent understanding of AI inputs and applications, careful attention to detail, and keen sense for the reliability of information sources. This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in a flexible role gaining exposure to cutting edge AI advancements and doing impactful work. Data you collect will be used in our future research and will inform international AI policy decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Carefully parsing assigned machine learning papers or benchmark leaderboards and identifying key information.
• Accurately extracting and compiling these technical details.
• Producing informed estimates of metrics about the physical infrastructure supporting AI based on limited information.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines reliably.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to systematically extract key information from a variety of sources.
• Understanding or interest in a broad array of technical AI topics, especially model evaluations and data centers.

Compensation & Benefits

• Hourly compensation between $30-40 USD, estimated at 10–30 hours of work per week, depending on your availability (more hours, up to full-time, will be considered). Wages are not restricted to USD, and contracts and payments are usually in local currencies. Conversions are based on average exchange rates.
• Fully remote environment, including flexible work hours.

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