Constellation Cook

Constellation; Berkeley (CA); On-site; Full time

Job summary

Constellation seeks a Cook to join our culinary team in Berkeley. This short-term, full-time role involves preparing diverse meals for our research office. Ideal candidates are passionate about food and capable of working collaboratively to deliver high-quality dishes while maintaining food safety standards.

Benefits

Potential benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in professional kitchen required.
• Must accommodate dietary needs.
• Ability to work with recipes and independently.

Responsibilities

• Prepare healthy meals for up to 150 people daily.
• Assist in all aspects of meal preparation and presentation.
• Ensure kitchen cleanliness and adherence to food safety.

Skills

Knife skills

Communication (English)

Culinary knowledge

Food safety

Education

Food handlers card

1-5 years professional cooking experience

Job description

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Base pay range

$35.00/hr - $42.00/hr

About Constellation

Constellation is an independent research center that brings together people throughout the AI safety ecosystem to accelerate insight, research, and talent through better cooperation. Unlike a conference or summit, Constellation operates continuously, in the form of a physical workspace as well as conference-style talks, workshops, and training bootcamps. Continuous operation allows for relationships and conversations to develop over time, meaningfully fostering trust, collaboration, and shared insight. It also makes Constellation a natural field-building hub by rapidly inspiring, orienting, and connecting people who are newer to the field.

Based in Berkeley, CA, our shared workspace hosts over 100 people per week across dozens of AI safety organizations in nonprofits, academia, industry, and government. Hundreds of other researchers spend time at Constellation for shorter visits each year. We believe this is the strongest and highest-output network of AI safety researchers in the world; dozens of participants in past Constellation programs have gone on to safety-focused roles at companies such as METR, Redwood Research, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and the US and UK Safety Institutes.

Constellation's sole research focus is on mitigating extreme global safety and security risks from future AI systems, including human extinction. For more information, see our research focus areas and selected publications from Constellation fellows.

About The Role

We are looking for an excited and responsible cook or chef to join our team in a short-term position (up to 6 months). Our culinary program currently hosts more than 150 people each day provides lunch and dinners to a busy research office, with meals designed and prepared collaboratively each week by the team. We aim to deliver high-quality, diverse dishes across a range of cuisines. Our meals prioritize delicious vegetables and ethically sourced proteins, and accommodate a wide variety of dietary needs - from veganism to omnivorous. The shift would be Monday - Friday, 7:00 am - 3:00pm . Ideal candidates are excited to explore foods and cuisines, take responsibility for specific dishes, and also to engage in quotidian but important tasks like vegetable prep and cleaning.

Key Responsibilities

• The Lunch Cook will assist in all aspects of preparing delicious, varied, healthy meals for an office space in downtown Berkeley, out of a rental kitchen down the street
• Clean, cut, cook or otherwise prepare delicious foods, both from recipes and from culinary knowledge
• Deliver, arrange and label meals, or aid in the task thereof
• Clean equipment and facilities as needed
  
  
  

Skills & Experience

• Solid to excellent knife skills and grasp of the basics of cookery
• Able to both work without recipes and to precisely follow recipes as needed
• One or more areas of cooking knowledge (experience with an ethnic or regional cuisines, baking experience, butchery, pickling/charcuterie/ferment work or others that applicant can talk about)
• Solid communication skills (English, verbally and in writing)
• Can act with sense of urgency as needed
• Strong sense of responsibility, will perform to high standards both with and without supervision
• Take food safety and deliciousness seriously. Knows and follows food safety requirements. Maintains sufficient personal hygiene
  
  
  

Education and Experience:

• At least one year related professional experience required, 2-5+ years preferred (we care about the passion and skills you bring to the task rather than credentialism, but wish to see that you have experience in the kitchen and knowledge that you want to work there)
• Food handlers card required (may be acquired after hiring decision), servsafe or equivalent preferred
  
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Job requires standing and walking for a full day, safely lifting 50+ pounds at a time, dealing with objects that are some permutation of hot, sharp and heavy
• Proof of vaccination(s) may be required if related to the essential duties of the job and in accordance with applicable laws and health regulations
  
  
  

Our office is in downtown Berkeley, CA, thirteen seconds from the nearest BART (metro) stop.

We value diversity in all respects and base our hiring decisions on the needs of the organization and individual qualifications. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age or disability.

This is a short-term, full time, on-site role. This position requires some flexibility, and candidate should be able to work the lunch (7am-3pm) shift.

May be eligible for benefits.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Civic and Social Organizations

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