Researcher, Consultations
Get Remote Jobs in Your Inbox 📬
New opportunities delivered weekly. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Job Description
Researcher, Consultations
Remote
Consultations & Insights /
Full Time /
Remote
Application Deadline: October 24, 2025, at the end of day in your local time zone.
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.).
About the role and team We’re hiring a remote Researcher to join our Consultations & Insights team. In this role, you’ll produce data-driven research on AI trends for governments, investors, AI companies, and other key stakeholders. You will work closely with JS Denain, one of our Senior Researchers, as we expand our external consultations program.
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. We provide decision-makers with rapid, authoritative analysis of AI developments. Our partners include governments, investors, AI developers, non-profits, and other organizations navigating the AI landscape.
Our work takes several forms:
We research questions spanning the entire AI pipeline: from compute stocks and datacenter power requirements, to model capabilities and benchmark analysis, to adoption trends and economic impacts.
Key responsibilities
- Making estimates and forecasts based on limited information for quantities like compute resources, power supply curves, or future capabilities.
- Responding to client questions across diverse topics - from technical details about model training to economic questions about chip production capacity.
- Evaluating technical claims to assess whether reported benchmark scores, training costs, or algorithmic improvements are credible. For example, what should we make of a lab’s reports of achieving IMO gold, or of claims about DeepSeek-R1’s training costs.
- Synthesizing findings into clear written analysis that translates technical details into actionable takeaways, with transparent reasoning and quantified uncertainty.
- Drawing on Epoch's research to answer client questions, which requires developing deep familiarity with work across the organization.
- Managing multiple workstreams with varying timelines, balancing fast-turnaround requests with longer research projects.
What we're looking for
- Intellectual curiosity and learning speed: Ability to rapidly absorb new information across diverse domains and stay at the forefront of a fast-moving field. We're looking for someone who actively seeks out new research and enjoys diving into unfamiliar topics.
- Estimation and forecasting skills: Comfort making quantitative estimates based on limited information, with clear reasoning about uncertainty.
- Prior research experience in at least one part of the AI pipeline (hardware, datacenters, power, AI research, etc.).
- Strong coding skills, especially for independently running and iterating on data analyses.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Nice to have: Prior forecasting experience, familiarity with Epoch's body of work.
- We expect great candidates might have prior experience as analysts or researchers, but this is not a requirement.
- If you don't tick all these boxes but think you would be a great fit, please consider applying anyway!
Other BenefitsFully remote environmentsupport relocation and sponsor visasCompetitive global benefits programGenerous paid time offParental leaveexpense policyPaid work tripsoffices
Other benefits as allowed at the discretion of Epoch AI’s leadership and local availability.
A supportive and energized team that is excited about the work we are doing and our mission.
Additional Informationemail
While we welcome applicants from all time zones, we prefer candidates who can maintain overlap with both UTC (GMT) and UTC–8 (Pacific Time) time zones.
English
We prefer candidates who can travel: we hold three retreats per year to which attendance is strongly encouraged.
inclusive, equitable, and supportive community
About Epoch AI
Epoch AI is a research institute leading the investigation of artificial intelligence's trajectory and impact. Our mission is to develop a comprehensive, publicly accessible knowledge base on AI that informs policymakers, industry leaders, and society at large.
We strive to achieve both rigor and accessibility to our work, as exemplified by some of our most successful projects, including our and our . Our expertise in AI is demonstrated by our body of research, including our work on (IJCN 2022), (ICML 2024), and (NeurIPS 2024). You can read more about our work and mission on our and .
Please mention that you come from JA Ranks when applying for this job.
Please mention that you come from JA Ranks when applying for this job.
Job Details
- Category
- Engineering
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- 4 days ago
Related Jobs
Please mention that you come from JA Ranks when applying for this job.