Role description
Aligned LabsAbout the job
We are looking to expand our team of expert consultants with Energy & Utilities Regulation Attorneys for part-time, fully remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects start at $125–200 USD / hour, and the bracket can be flexible depending on the task.
This role includes evaluating and pressure-testing leading AI models on expert-level energy and utilities regulation knowledge, creating and verifying graduate-level problems and worked solutions, and assessing whether AI-generated reasoning meets the standards of a trained energy and utilities regulation attorney.
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About Aligned
At Aligned, we partner with the world's leading AI labs to push the frontier of AI knowledge in fields like STEM, humanities, and the social sciences. Our platform matches subject-matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs.
Who We're Looking For
You are a practicing attorney with 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: FERC Electric Regulation, RTO & ISO Markets and Interconnection, Natural Gas & Pipeline Regulation, State Public Utility Regulation, PURPA, PUHCA & Qualifying Facility and Exempt Generator Status, FERC Enforcement & Compliance, Power Purchase Agreements & Energy Contracts, Energy M&A & Regulatory Approvals, Renewable Energy Development & Finance, Energy & Infrastructure Project Finance, Energy Trading Documentation, or Transmission, Storage & Emerging Energy.
Ideal backgrounds include
- Partners, counsel, and senior associates in the energy regulatory and projects groups of leading law firms
- Attorneys at energy regulatory specialist and regional firms
- In-house counsel at utilities and energy companies
- Attorneys at federal energy regulators
Minimum Qualifications
- Fluent English reading and writing skills
- Based in the United States
- JD from a leading US law school and currently practicing
- 5+ years of experience in energy and utilities regulation or a closely related field
- Deep expertise in at least one of the listed areas of energy and utilities regulation