Principal Engineer
Independent nonprofit supporting frontier-AI insiders who want to raise concerns, through research, policy advocacy, and access to vetted legal and financial resources.
Funding history
About The AI Whistleblower Initiative (AIWI)
AIWI operates whistleblower-support services and AI-policy work. Its active offering includes Third Opinion, an anonymous expert-opinion service for frontier-AI concerns, plus directories of legal and financial support and advocacy to improve AI-company whistleblowing policies.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own technology architecture, implementation, deployment, security, and maintenance. You will build secure internal tools and external products, operate self-hosted infrastructure, integrate AI systems, manage a delivery budget, and work with stakeholders to translate sensitive operational needs into reliable systems.
Requirements
- Software engineering
- DevOps
- Systems development
- Backend development
- Web development
- Rust
- Go
- C
- C++
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Python
- CI/CD
- Security hardening
- Cloud infrastructure
- Self-hosted infrastructure
- Ansible
- OpenTofu
- AI model integration
- Agent framework
- Threat modeling
- Operational security
- Project management
Responsibilities
- Own technology architecture, implementation, deployment, security, and maintenance
- Build and operate secure self-hosted internal tooling
- Build secure CRM, AI, knowledge-management, communication, and news-tracking systems
- Deliver external-facing products from prototype to production
- Oversee the technical aspects of the website
- Manage the technology roadmap and budget
- Translate stakeholder requirements into working systems
- Apply security hardening, threat modeling, and operational security practices
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously
Benefits
- Pension
- Gym benefit
- Learning and Development fund
- Paid co-working space
- Occasional travel for company-wide offsites or conferences
- Flexible scheduling
- Comprehensive benefits
- Coaching by an AIWI board member and serial entrepreneur CTO
Hiring Process
Application review → 15-minute introduction call → 30-minute CTO call → 4–6-hour take-home task → two-hour in-person final interview → references.