Generator will pay you $8,500 a month for three months in Berkeley to build AI safety projects, and you don't have to be a researcher. Applications close at the end of Sunday 1 November, Anywhere on Earth, which is Monday 2 November. If you need a visa, the real deadline is earlier. They ask international applicants to apply by Monday 26 October, so the J-1 paperwork has time to clear. That's eight days from today. Here's how it actually works, minus the brochure language. Kairos and Constellation run it. The cohort is in person at Constellation's office in Berkeley, from 18 January to 9 April 2027. They cover travel to and from Berkeley and give you a budget for the project. There are two tracks. Self Directed means you scope and lead something new, often with other residents. Embedded means you join an AI safety org or a mentor and work on what they've scoped. Their own pitch is blunt: AI safety has plenty of people good at ideas and not enough people good at people and projects. Engineers are explicitly on the list, alongside ops, comms and policy. Two things to know before you apply. The free-text answers have to be written by you, with no AI writing or polishing, and that includes Grammarly-style tools. And they say what matters most is a track record of execution, and my guess is a side project nobody uses won't carry much weight. This is the part of AI most devs never look at. Everyone wants to train models, but the tooling, evals and infrastructure around safety teams is thin, and that's mostly ordinary engineering work. Three months of paid time next to the people who need that work is worth more to me than another certificate.