Independent AI builders, researchers, and backers
Rootcomputer is a nonprofit AI startup focused on safe, aligned, and deeply useful artificial intelligence. We are looking for independent developers, researchers, technical contributors, writers, scientists, philosophers, dataset builders, and financial backers who want to help build serious AI systems outside the usual corporate race for scale.
Rootcomputer exists for people who believe AI development should be careful, principled, technically serious, and accessible to independent researchers. Our work sits at the intersection of model training, alignment, psychology, language, reasoning, synthetic data, interface design, and long-term AI safety.
We are not looking for hype. We are looking for people who want to contribute real skill, careful thinking, and useful work toward AI systems that are safer, more understandable, and more aligned with human values.
You do not need a perfect resume or a formal research background to contribute. We are especially interested in independent builders who can think clearly, learn quickly, and work seriously on hard problems.
Python developers, frontend web developers, backend developers, app builders, tooling engineers, and general programmers who can help build useful AI systems, training tools, websites, interfaces, dashboards, and research infrastructure.
Contributors interested in model architecture, fine-tuning, pretraining, inference systems, evaluation, dataset design, AI safety, alignment, interpretability, and practical model behavior.
People interested in AI agency, reasoning, ethics, synthetic psychology, consciousness questions, safe system design, and the philosophical boundaries of machine intelligence.
People with strong knowledge in mathematics, science, linguistics, writing, education, multilingual capabilities, reasoning tasks, or factual dataset creation.
Contributors who can help collect, clean, structure, audit, and improve training data for language models, reasoning systems, safety behavior, domain knowledge, and human-centered conversation.
Donors, sponsors, angel backers, and mission-aligned supporters who want to help fund compute, infrastructure, development, research, hosting, tooling, and long-term nonprofit AI work.
Rootcomputer is early-stage, independent, and actively looking for people who want to help shape the direction of the lab. Whether you can contribute code, research, writing, datasets, funding, scientific knowledge, language expertise, or general technical skill, there may be a place for you here.
We are especially interested in collaborators who care about the long-term consequences of AI and want to help create systems that are useful, understandable, constrained, and aligned from the ground up.
Send a short message about who you are, what you are interested in, and how you may want to contribute. Include links to projects, GitHub, writing, research, previous work, or anything else that helps us understand your skills and direction.