High Impact Engineers
Career
You will probably spend about 80,000 hours working. That makes your career one of the biggest ways you can have a positive impact. So you should probably spend a lot of time thinking about your career if you care about your impact!
Conversations with engineers
Check out our podcast for interviews with engineers working on nuclear security, pandemic preparedness, animal welfare, and more!
Other resources to check out
80,000 Hours is a non-profit that helps people use their careers to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Their website contains lots of great resources, including a long-running podcast, a career guide, plenty of researched articles, and a job board. They also offer 1-1 career advice. Recently, they started focusing mostly on AI risk, but their back catalogue of resources covers a wide range of cause areas.
Probably Good is another non-profit that helps people build careers that are good for them and the world. They also have a job board and offer 1-1 advising.
Got a specific question or want to talk to someone about your career?
Check out our community and start a discussion thread! Someone might be able to point you to some resources and maybe offer a 1-1 chat! High Impact Engineers is currently not funded, so sadly we can’t guarantee that someone will have time.
These pages are written by volunteers. You can improve them by contributing on GitHub. Check out the README for details.