Job description
Meridian • Cambridge, UK
MARKETING & MEDIA INTERN (Social & Video)
About Meridian Impact CIC
Meridian is the UK's home for frontier‑risk reduction: a 200‑member hub focused on AI safety and biosecurity. Our community unites alignment researchers, biorisk engineers, policy advisers, founders, and funders who are building safeguards for transformative technologies. We’re a non-profit so we reinvest every surplus pound back into this mission – funding new programmes, research, and open‑source resources. Learn more at meridiancambridge.org.
What you'll actually be doing
You'll be the person who figures out how to make AI alignment research compelling to a 22-year-old on LinkedIn and a 45-year-old policy advisor on X. One day you're filming a researcher explaining why current safety measures won't scale to AGI, the next you're figuring out how to make a roomful of Cambridge researchers laugh during a behind-the-scenes video.
Day-to-day, you'll spend most of your time filming events and interviews using Meridian's equipment, editing that footage into compelling content for different platforms, and creating and managing posts across our social media accounts.
We literally don't have social accounts set up yet. We're starting from near-zero, which means you get to decide whether we should be on TikTok explaining capability control or if our audience actually lives in Discord servers and academic Twitter. You're not inheriting someone else's content calendar or brand guidelines — you're creating them.
What's in it for you
Your raw material is unlike anything most content creators touch: conversations about existential risk, demos of interpretability research, debates about AI governance timelines. You'll film talks where the stakes aren't quarterly revenue but humanity's long-term trajectory. Then you'll figure out how to package these ideas so they reach the people who can actually do something about them.
You’ll get workspace at Meridian Cambridge and direct access to a community that includes everyone from researchers to parliament advisors to entrepreneurs. Plus you'll build a portfolio that stands out - most content creators never get to work on topics this consequential.
You're probably the right person if...
- You can watch a 90-minute technical talk and immediately see the 60-second story buried inside it
- You're energized by filming brilliant people who know their stuff inside and out
- You're skilled with video editing software and enjoy the creative challenge of making any space look good on camera
- You thrive when given creative ownership and the freedom to make your own decisions
- Bonus if you find yourself reading about AI safety or biosecurity in your spare time, or you're genuinely curious about why these topics matter
Practical details
Status: Paid internship (temporary contract)
Pay: £13–£15 per hour, depending on experience
Hours: Flexible, 20-40 hrs/week, mostly on‑site in Cambridge UK
Dates: Start ASAP, ideally through 30 September 2025 (extension possible)
Eligibility: Must have the right to work in the UK
How to apply
Email info@meridiancambridge.org with your CV and 2-3 examples of video/social content you've created. Tell us in a few sentences why this role excites you.
Applications reviewed on a rolling basis; early submissions encouraged.