Comms & Content Strategist

About MIRI

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, focused on helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of smarter-than-human AI. Our efforts are largely split between technical governance research and communications.

In the wake of the success of Nate and Eliezer’s book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, MIRI has an opportunity to push through a lot of doors that have cracked open, and roll a lot of snowballs down a lot of hills. 2026 is going to be a year of ambitious experimentation, trying lots of new ways to deliver MIRI ideas and content to newly receptive audiences.

This means ramping up our capacity, particularly in the arena of communications. Our team did an admirable job in 2025 of handling all of the challenges of launching and promoting a book (including helping Nate and Eliezer assemble the supplemental materials for it, which is an artifact that we expect to be extremely useful, going forward). But we’ve both a) had to let some things slide a little bit, in the scramble, and want to get the house back in order, and b) need more hands for the upcoming push.

Below is something like a list of roles or domains. They aren’t exactly job descriptions, but they’re close. It’s possible that we might hire one person for each of the roles below; it’s possible that someone might come on board and own two or three of them (many of them synergize). This is, essentially, our wish list—each of these things will ultimately either be owned by an existing team member, hired for, or (if we can’t find the right person) triaged.

Location
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Berkeley, California. In-person is preferred, though remote work is possible, and remote hires need to be willing to come to California at least occasionally (1-4x/yr). We are unlikely to be able to acquire work authorization for international applicants wishing to move to the U.S.

Process: Apply by filling out the form here. Promising applicants will be sent a trial task to complete (you will be paid $150 for your time), and applicants who perform well on that trial task will be contacted to schedule an interview.

Salaries: Salaries at MIRI are variable, and we try to meet each employee’s needs. We think there are (roughly) three types of candidates for the roles below: junior, senior/experienced, and stellar. We expect most junior and senior salaries to fall within the $80–160k range, and a stellar candidate much more than that. If you are e.g. a national media figure who is interested in working with MIRI to ameliorate existential risk from AI and are worth $500k/yr, let us know that.

This is the “getting our house in order” role. We’re looking for someone with an eye for detail and high conscientiousness, who is capable of building and maintaining systems and dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s in a reliable and timely manner.

What happens, week by week:

• Handle the inboxes for our contact@ and media@ accounts, making sure that we are replying to inquiries quickly. Help coordinate the schedules of people like Malo and Nate, who are often invited to appear at conferences or do interviews.

• Handle routine, repeated comms such as our quarterly newsletter (it would be great if that returned to being a monthly or even biweekly newsletter in 2026).

• Take ownership of the MIRI website, ensuring that it is up-to-date and effective and serving our overall goals. (This does not necessarily entail direct design work or coding, but it means being responsible for making sure that designers and coders are hired to complete any tasks that need to be done, and seeing those tasks through to completion.)

• Proactively improve communication between the different parts of MIRI, and ensure that MIRI’s core social media accounts (Twitter, Facebook) are posting regularly in ways that support our other efforts (e.g. staying in close contact with our technical governance team and letting the world know whenever they’ve produced an important artifact).

• Keep track of the general news cycle, and be responsive to it; become well-versed in MIRI’s core memes…