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About the Role

The AI Security Institute is seeking exceptional Software Engineers at all experience levels to work on cutting-edge technologies and research problems with real-world impact in frontier AI security. You will build state-of-the-art evaluations, run pre-deployment testing, validate model behaviors, and answer timely research questions, contributing to the UK government's understanding of AI cyber capabilities and global safety standards.

Responsibilities

Build evaluation infrastructure: develop systems and code that make cyber and autonomy evaluations possible at scale.
Develop analysis tooling: turn raw results into insights, including LLM-as-a-judge and other analysis workflows.
Lead testing exercises: identify key research questions, run evaluations to collect evidence, analyse results, and communicate findings and recommendations.
Deliver engineering work: own technical projects and shared components from design through implementation, iteration, and maintenance.
Write production-quality code: build scalable, robust, maintainable Python software with strong testing, documentation, and observability practices.

Requirements

Delivering and maintaining production-quality software
Deep Python experience, with a clear view of what good Python looks like and broad familiarity with the wider ecosystem and tooling
Designing and evolving software systems or technical architecture
Strong interest in helping to improve the safety of AI systems
Take ownership of ambiguous, technically hard problems and follow through
Communicate clearly and raise engineering standards through feedback and mentoring
Cybersecurity or adversarial-security expertise
Building, operating, or analysing AI evaluations
Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems using DevOps practices
Familiarity with AI misuse and loss-of-control threat models

Skills

Python

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–£145,000

Benefits

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
5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development
Funding for conferences and external collaborations
Freedom to pursue research bets without product pressure
Opportunities to publish and collaborate externally
Modern central London office, or option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol
Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment
At least 25 days’ annual leave, 8 public holidays, extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering
Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time)
28.97% employer pension contribution
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 dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action.
We’re in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10 (the Prime Minister's office), and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.
Governments are critical for advanced AI going well, and UK AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilise them.
With our resources, unique agility and international influence, this is the best place to shape both AI development and government action.
AI capabilities in cybersecurity and autonomy are advancing faster than at any point in history.
Frontier models can now work through multi-step network intrusions, discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, and carry out long-horizon technical tasks with increasing independence.
These are extraordinary tools for scientific and economic progress, but also have the potential for serious harm if misused or deployed without adequate oversight, as seen in the recent cybersecurity incidents.
Our Cyber & Autonomous Systems Team evaluates the capability of both frontier and open-weight AI models in cybersecurity, autonomy and AI R&D, ensuring the UK government and its partners have an accurate view of risks and capabilities.
We use realistic cyber ranges and a large CTF suite for our evaluations, run pre-deployment testing of frontier models, and collaborate with our partners across UK government, frontier labs, and NCSC.

Equal Opportunity

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.
As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.
As part of the application process, we monitor statistics on D&I.
We may be able to offer roles to applicant from any nationality or background. As such we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the standard nationality requirements.