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About the Role
The AI Security Institute is seeking cybersecurity experts to work at the forefront of frontier AI security. This role involves working with cutting-edge technologies on research problems with real-world impact, receiving mentorship, and contributing to the UK government's understanding of AI cyber capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Design cyber ranges and CTF-style challenges for automatically grading AI system performance on cybersecurity tasks.
- Build agentic scaffolding to evaluate frontier models, equipping them with tools such as network packet capture utilities, penetration testing frameworks, and reverse engineering/disassembly tools.
- Design metrics and interpret results of cyber capability evaluations.
- Work alongside other engineers to ensure evaluation environments are robust and scalable.
- Write reports, research papers and blog posts to share findings with stakeholders.
- Keep up-to-date with related research taking place in other organisations.
- Contribute to AISI's broader understanding of AI cyber risks.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills with experience writing scripts for automation or security tooling.
- Proven experience in at least one of the following areas of cybersecurity red-teaming: Penetration testing, Cyber range design, Competing in or designing CTFs, Developing automated security testing tools, Bug bounties, vulnerability research, or exploit discovery and patching.
- Strong interest in helping improve the safety of AI systems.
- Familiarity with virtualisation technologies such as Proxmox VE and infrastructure-as-code approaches.
- Ability to communicate the outcomes of cybersecurity research to a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity tools such as network packet capture utilities, penetration testing frameworks, and reverse engineering/disassembly tools.
- Active in the cybersecurity community with a track record of keeping up to date with new research.
- Previous experience building or measuring the impact of automation tools on cyber red-teaming workflows.
- Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and get BPSS clearance.
- Preference for eligibility for CTC clearance.
Skills
- Python
- Automation scripting
- Security tooling
- Penetration testing
- Cyber range design
- CTF design
- Automated security testing
- Bug bounties
- Vulnerability research
- Exploit discovery
- Exploit patching
- AI safety
- Virtualisation technologies
- Proxmox VE
- Infrastructure-as-code
- Cybersecurity research communication
- Network packet capture utilities
- Penetration testing frameworks
- Reverse engineering tools
- Disassembly tools
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 (Base salary plus technical allowance)
- Level 3: £65,000–£75,000
- Level 4: £85,000–£95,000
- Level 5: £105,000–£115,000
- Level 6: £125,000–£135,000
- Level 7: £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.
- Opportunity to own important problems early.
- 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.
- Flexibility for occasional remote work abroad.
- 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.
- 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.
- We are uniquely positioned to mobilise governments for advanced AI.
- We have resources, unique agility and international influence 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.
- The 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.
- 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.
- We may be able to offer roles to applicant from any nationality or background.
- We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the standard nationality requirements.