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About the Role
The AI Security Institute's Research Unit is seeking Software Engineers for its Core Technology Team to work on critical research-oriented software and infrastructure. This role involves using cutting-edge technologies on impactful research problems, with mentorship from managers and technical leads, and interaction with leading researchers and staff from top tech companies and universities.
Responsibilities
- Add a feature to "sandbox plugins" for Inspect, supporting advanced agentic evals with safe mechanisms for code execution.
- Implement support for new classes of open-weights models on the model hosting platform.
- Support research teams by designing custom infrastructure for new projects.
- Collaborate with the open-source community on features for Inspect or its plugin ecosystem.
- Assist with evaluations of frontier AI models, debugging issues in Inspect arising from API changes.
- Write production quality code at a fast pace.
- Design, ship, and maintain complex tech products.
- Improve technical standards across a team through mentoring and feedback.
Requirements
- Experience writing production quality code.
- Experience writing code efficiently.
- Python experience, including understanding language intricacies, Pythonic practices, and the wider ecosystem/tooling.
- Experience building and maintaining systems on AWS or other cloud providers using infrastructure-as-code.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Strong verbal communication skills.
- Experience working with a world-class research team comprised of scientists and engineers.
- Teamwork skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Ability to tackle challenging problems.
Skills
- Python
- AWS
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Dev Ops
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- CDK
- Docker
- Cybersecurity
- ML Ops
- vLLM
- Agent frameworks
- Fine-tuning
- RAG systems
Location
- London
- Birmingham
- Cardiff
- Darlington
- Edinburgh
- Salford
- Bristol
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Occasional remote work abroad
Experience Level
- Junior
- Senior
- Staff
Salary/Compensations
- £65,000–£75,000 (Level 3)
- £85,000–£95,000 (Level 4)
- £105,000–£115,000 (Level 5)
- £125,000–£135,000 (Level 6)
- £145,000 (Level 7)
Benefits
- 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development.
- Funding for conferences and external collaborations.
- Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute.
- Extensive operational support.
- Work with experts across national security, policy, AI research and adjacent sciences.
- Opportunities to publish and collaborate externally.
- Modern central London office (cafes, food court, gym).
- Option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol.
- Stipends for work-from-home equipment.
- At least 25 days’ annual leave.
- 8 public holidays.
- Extra team-wide breaks.
- 3 days off for volunteering.
- Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks UK statutory leave shared + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time).
- 28.97% employer pension contribution on base salary.
- Discounts and benefits for cycling to work, donations and retail/gyms.
About the Company
- The AI Security Institute is the world's largest and best-funded team focused on understanding advanced AI risks and driving action.
- The institute operates within the UK government, with direct communication channels to the Prime Minister's office.
- It collaborates with frontier AI developers and governments globally.
- AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilize governments for the responsible advancement of AI.
- The Core Technology Team builds tools and infrastructure for all research work, including evaluation frameworks, large-scale evaluation systems, and hosting frontier models.
Equal Opportunity
- The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.
- A Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) is in place for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
- A Redeployment Interview Scheme is offered to civil servants at risk of redundancy who meet the minimum requirements.
- The Civil Service is committed to attracting, retaining, and investing in talent from all backgrounds.
- We encourage applications from candidates of any nationality or background.