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About the Role

The Agentic AI Risk Modelling team studies how advanced AI systems could become difficult to oversee, correct or shut down as they take on longer and more autonomous tasks. This role is for a Workstream Lead to lead and line-manage this team, shaping its strategy and research agenda, setting scientific direction, and ensuring mitigations move from analysis into adoption. It requires technical judgment, strategic thinking, delivery focus, and people leadership in a consequential area.

Responsibilities

Provide scientific, strategic, and managerial leadership for the Agentic AI Risk Modelling team.
Be accountable for the team’s research agenda and the implementation of identified mitigations.
Set priorities, choose analytical approaches, review output quality, and ensure work relevance.
Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team, overseeing multiple work strands.
Build strong relationships with senior policy and technical stakeholders.
Achieve the team’s aim for March 2027: UK organizations adopt existing mitigations, and new mitigations move quickly from research to adoption.
Set the team’s strategy, quarterly plan, and research agenda.
Lead the scientific direction of risk modelling, including selecting approaches, choosing scenarios, and reviewing outputs.
Develop analyses of advanced AI systems becoming difficult to oversee, correct, or shut down.
Identify practical ways to reduce risks associated with advanced AI.
Turn research into assessments, mitigations, and implementation pathways.
Support the adoption of mitigations with relevant UK organizations.
Hire, line-manage, and develop a multidisciplinary team, maintaining high standards.
Build trusted relationships with senior policy and technical staff across government, research organizations, and frontier AI companies.
Collaborate with other AISI research leaders on priorities, quality, and delivery across the Research Unit.

Requirements

Experience leading impactful research, scientific work, or technical programs relevant to frontier AI, AI safety, AI governance, risk analysis, or a closely related field.
Strong strategic judgment on advanced AI risks and ability to identify important questions in a fast-moving and uncertain area.
Experience setting and delivering research agendas or analytical programs in technically complex environments.
Ability to lead high-quality analytical or scientific work, including setting direction, critically reviewing outputs, and maintaining rigorous standards.
Experience translating technical or research findings into practical recommendations, operational interventions, or policy-relevant outputs.
Track record of successfully leading and line-managing high-performing multidisciplinary teams, including developing junior staff.
Experience building effective relationships with senior stakeholders in government, academia, industry, or other complex institutional environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and get BPSS clearance.
Strong preference for eligibility for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance.

Skills

AI control
Alignment
Model autonomy
Scenario analysis
Systemic risk
Frontier AI governance
Machine learning
Computer science
Engineering
Mathematics
Economics
Public policy
Security studies

Location

Modern central London office
Option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol

Work Type

Hybrid working
Flexibility for occasional remote work abroad

Experience Level

Senior leadership role

Education Level

Background in machine learning, computer science, engineering, mathematics, economics, public policy, security studies, or another relevant discipline.

Salary/Compensations

Level 3: £65,000–£75,000 (Base £39,850 + Technical Allowance £25,150–£35,150)
Level 4: £85,000–£95,000 (Base £47,355 + Technical Allowance £37,645–£47,645)
Level 5: £105,000–£115,000 (Base £61,620 + Technical Allowance £43,380–£53,380)
Level 6: £125,000–£135,000 (Base £74,605 + Technical Allowance £50,395–£60,395)
Level 7: £145,000 (Base £74,605 + Technical Allowance £70,395)

Benefits

Incredibly talented, mission-driven and supportive colleagues.
Direct influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally.
Work with the Prime Minister’s AI Advisor and leading AI companies.
Opportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security.
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.
Own important problems early if talented and driven.
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.
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 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 dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action.
We are 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.

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.
As part of the application process, we monitor statistics on D&I.
We may be able to offer roles to applicants from any nationality or background.