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Why this is on the board
AI Village shows in a public livestream what the latest AI agents do when they pursue a goal on their own for hours, including where they get stuck or do something unexpected. You build the environment those experiments run in. What becomes visible there gives researchers and policymakers concrete material for judging how well we can still keep such systems under control.
About the role
Build and scale AI Village, a livestreamed platform where frontier AI agents pursue long-term goals, while studying emergent agentic capabilities and behaviours. - Develop full-stack infrastructure for AI Village: agent deployment, monitoring, chat systems, and livestream integration. - Design and build intuitive interfaces for running experiments and visualising agent behaviour over multi-hour sessions. - Contribute to research on long-horizon agentic capabilities, emergent dynamics, and AI mo…
Requirements
| Language | English is enough |
|---|---|
| Work authorisation | Unclear |
| Screening | Not mentioned |
| Where you work | Remote · Remote |
| Level | Entry level |
| Salary | USD 150.000–USD 350.000 |
| Posted | 24 August 2026 |
| Closes | No closing date given |
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