Software Engineer, Benchmarking
Epoch AI
Job Description
<div><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/epoch-ai">Epoch AI</a> 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.</div><h3>About the role</h3><div><p><em>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.).</em></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><h3>Applications are rolling. </h3></div><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><ul><div><li><strong>Implement benchmarks</strong>: 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.</li><li><strong>Develop new benchmarks</strong>: 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.</li><li><strong>Collaborate</strong>: Work closely with researchers, analysts, and other engineers at <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/epoch-ai">Epoch AI</a> to ensure evaluation data and outputs are accurate, insightful, and effectively integrated into our research products and publications.</li></div></ul><h3>What we are looking for</h3><ul><div><li><strong>Solid engineering skills</strong>: 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.</li><li><strong>Ideas and creativity</strong>:Candidates should be able to generate their own ideas for new benchmarks, experiments, novel things to try, and other projects.</li><li><strong>Mission-driven</strong>: You’re motivated by <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/epoch-ai">Epoch AI</a>’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 wid