Effective Altruism Global
Experimental Officer, Respirator Testing
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Building the 21st century's most important hardware
Our team of mechanical, electronic, firmware, and software engineers invents, designs, and builds new hardware. We work with world leading startups, universities, corporates, and funders to solve the world's most pressing technical challenges.
Our Focus
- Hardware to verify powerful AI systems
- Scaling new materials 1000x
- Hardware to direct evolution
Our Beliefs
Human progress depends upon material advancement – the development of new technologies, the discovery of new science, and the design of new products that expand human capability. Material advancement is not an end in itself: it matters because it lifts living standards, broadens experiences, and gives people the agency to build a better future.
At the same time, we believe that the order of technology development is critical to human flourishing. Differential technology development, the process of deliberately accelerating the creation of safety-enhancing technologies, is how we choose to balance techno-optimism with our concern for humanity's future.
We choose engineering as our tool for material advancement and differential technology development.
Our Projects
Advancing Science
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We are one of ARIA's nine Activation Partners. Our pitch is simple: scientific breakthroughs often require tools that don't yet exist. We develop these new tools - enabling scientific discovery by inventing new hardware.
AI Security
Our hardware team is focused on securing advanced AI systems, we demonstrated the flexHEG architecture with Ulyssean and are now working to implement it at scale. We're working on both multilateral governance and hardware security.
Biosecurity
We apply physical sciences to counter biological threats, we are partnering with the University of Sheffield on an automated RNA vaccine production system, with Oxford University on next-generation respiratory PPE, and with RAND on building-scale biodefense systems.
Components that unblock research
- Strobe drive board
- New scientific equipment
- Bioreactor for RNA production
- Turning lab inventions into prototype products
- 20kV medical device
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Our Clients
Trusted by 4 of the world's top 10 universities, international funders, and global startups. We have a track record delivering incredible engineering progress across disciplines.
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- Sector amodo
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- 5 Roles for the Unreasonably Ambitious
- Sector materials
- An Aeropress for Chemical Engineering
- A two week sprint to develop a piston press for isolating mesoporous silica nanoparticles.
- An Aeropress for Chemical Engineering
- Sector metascience
- What is an FRC?
- "BBN model orgs" aka "FRCs". Notes from an FRC-ish founder.
- What is an FRC?
- Sector biosecurity
- Physical Approaches to Civilian Biodefense
- A research project for the RAND Corporation. The work identifies potential preparedness measures for challenging biological Threats.
- Physical Approaches to Civilian Biodefense
- Sector sheffield
- Sheffield startups
- A few notes on the Sheffield startup ecosystem.
- Sheffield startups
- Sector electronics
- Power Supply Ripple Injector Board
- A PCB to for measuring power supply ripple rejection.
- Power Supply Ripple Injector Board
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We're a high-growth, world-changing startup. We are always hiring on a rolling basis for excellent talent in any role. Please apply if you're an ambitious top performer in any field or discipline, engineering or not.
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