Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) | Data Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time
We're a ~20-person nonprofit doing forecasting research on high-stakes problems, including AI progress, biosecurity, and nuclear risk. We have dozens of active projects that generate forecasting data from surveys, expert panels, and AI systems.
We're looking for our first dedicated data engineer. You'd start alongside an external vendor extending an existing warehouse, then take full ownership. Concretely, the work would involve building ELT pipelines from survey platforms and external sources into a cloud warehouse, maintaining a dimensional model, collaborating with analysts, and overseeing orchestration & monitoring.
You have solid Python + ETL/ELT, strong SQL and dimensional modeling, cloud warehouse experience. Nice to have: dbt/Airflow/Dagster, prior SWE work, interest in forecasting. Apply even if you don't tick every box!
Conditions:
- 100% Remote (worldwide) / Remote (global)
- 30 days PTO, health insurance contribution
- $75k–$130k, depending on experience
- 3 team retreats/year
Hiring process: short work test → paid 10-hour test → a few interviews.
Forecasting Research Institute (FRI) | Data Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time
We're a ~20-person nonprofit doing forecasting research on high-stakes problems, including AI progress, biosecurity, and nuclear risk. We have dozens of active projects that generate forecasting data from surveys, expert panels, and AI systems.
We're looking for our first dedicated data engineer. You'd start alongside an external vendor extending an existing warehouse, then take full ownership. Concretely, the work would involve building ELT pipelines from survey platforms and external sources into a cloud warehouse, maintaining a dimensional model, collaborating with analysts, and overseeing orchestration & monitoring.
You have solid Python + ETL/ELT, strong SQL and dimensional modeling, cloud warehouse experience. Nice to have: dbt/Airflow/Dagster, prior SWE work, interest in forecasting. Apply even if you don't tick every box!
Conditions:
- 100% Remote (worldwide) / Remote (global)
- 30 days PTO, health insurance contribution
- $75k–$130k, depending on experience
- 3 team retreats/year
Hiring process: short work test → paid 10-hour test → a few interviews.
The ForecastBench Tournament Leaderboard [2] allows external participants to submit models, most of whom provide some sort of web search / news scaffolding to improve model forecasting accuracy.
Save the Children is looking for three short-term (6 months-1 year, fully remote) programmers to help build a tool that will help us monitor global risks (armed conflict, floods, epidemics, economic shocks, etc.). This is a cool project for anyone interested in humanitarianism or geopolitics.
We use the Microsoft tech stack, including .NET, C#, Microsoft SQL Server, Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps.
The work is fully remote and the team (the Context Analysis and Foresight Unit) is fun, smart, and engaged.
Several years ago, I switched to products that are EWG verified [1], meaning a product's ingredients are safe for humans. Some of the EWG verified products are quite expensive, so it took a while to find a brand that was affordable and safe to use. I've switched everything to that brand (shampoo, conditioner, soap, dishwasher and laundry detergent, cleaners, ...).
They even have a search engine that allows you to search for products [2] or ingredients. If don't know what's in your products, I encourage you to start here to find out more about the ingredients.
When I was looking into that I remember having read (or watched a youtube video, I was deep in a rabbit hole) something good about these companies [1][2]. Take it for what it's worth.
For anyone else who's potentially interested in this, I found https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/ to be really useful in my foray into building keyboards. We spend so much time with keyboards, they might as well be customized to our needs :)
I bought a kit for my first build https://choc.brianlow.com/ and still think that was the right way to go, but some may prefer to start out with pre-built keyboards.
We're a ~20-person nonprofit doing forecasting research on high-stakes problems, including AI progress, biosecurity, and nuclear risk. We have dozens of active projects that generate forecasting data from surveys, expert panels, and AI systems.
We're looking for our first dedicated data engineer. You'd start alongside an external vendor extending an existing warehouse, then take full ownership. Concretely, the work would involve building ELT pipelines from survey platforms and external sources into a cloud warehouse, maintaining a dimensional model, collaborating with analysts, and overseeing orchestration & monitoring.
You have solid Python + ETL/ELT, strong SQL and dimensional modeling, cloud warehouse experience. Nice to have: dbt/Airflow/Dagster, prior SWE work, interest in forecasting. Apply even if you don't tick every box!
Conditions:
- 100% Remote (worldwide) / Remote (global)
- 30 days PTO, health insurance contribution
- $75k–$130k, depending on experience
- 3 team retreats/year
Hiring process: short work test → paid 10-hour test → a few interviews.
Apply at https://forecastingresearch.org/careers/data-engineer