EA - AGI Safety Fundamentals programme is contracting a low-code engineer by Jamie Bernardi

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AGI Safety Fundamentals programme is contracting a low-code engineer, published by Jamie Bernardi on August 26, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TL;DR: Help the AGI Safety Fundamentals, Alternative Protein Fundamentals, and other programs by automating our manual work to support larger cohorts of course participants, more frequently. Register interest here [5 mins, CV not required if you don’t have one]. Job description We are looking to find a low-code contractor who can help us to scale and run our seminar programmes. We have worked with an engineer to build our systems so far, but they are moving on. Here is a list of tools and apps we use to make our programmes run: The backbone of the programme is run with no-code tools (Airtable database, Make automations to interface with Slack and Google Calendar). One python script which clusters participants with a similar background based on some numerical metrics (not currently integrated in Airtable, but we’d like it to be). One vercel webapp to collect participants’ and facilitators’ time availability. One javascript algorithm which groups ~50 previously-clustered participants & facilitators into cohorts of ~6 participants + 1 facilitator. We would like (you) to introduce more extensions using similar tools in the future. We’re offering part time, contract work We’re looking for part-time, contract support for now. We would offer a retainer, and would pay an hourly rate for additional work. Further logistical details: We need more responsiveness when kicking off programs, in case there are bugs (4 weeks, ~3 times a year). There will be development work to do in between programmes. We are open to (and slightly prefer) full time contract work for the first couple of months to get us up and running. You can let us know what would work for you in the form. Salary We are offering $50 / hour. Let us know if this salary would prevent you from taking the role in the form. Were you hoping for a full time opportunity? We're also likely to want to build out an entire new software platform for these programmes over the next 6 months, and we'll be looking for excellent software engineers who can help us build a team to achieve this. We currently use Slack, Zoom, vercel, Airtable forms etc and tie these together using low-code tools like Airtable and Zapier. We are interested in bringing this under one platform, to enhance user experience and retention. We expect to have other software needs to manage our community and websites hosting opportunities downstream of our programmes, too. You can register interest for the full time Head of Software here, though please note this role is not as fleshed-out as the part-time role described in this post at this point. Why should you work on this project? Scale These programmes have offered the first scalable, EA-originating onboarding programmes to the field of AI safety and alternative proteins. The growth trajectory for both programmes has been excitingly steep. The AGI Safety Fundamentals went from 15->230->520 participants. We now have 650 registrations of interest for the next round, before promoting the programme through usual channels (this is as many people who ultimately applied to round 2). We also run the Alternative Proteins Fundamentals, which has seen 400 participants in its 2nd round, and we plan to build out many more programmes using the same infrastructure in the future. All together, we expect the infrastructure you build in this role to support 5,000+ people in the next 1-5 years. We get that with the conservative estimate that we run 2 programmes, 2.5 times/year with 200 participants each time. Additionally, we expect to add ~10 more programmes in the coming years. Building quality infrastructure will increase our teams’ capacity to continue to iterate and improve to ...