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About the Role
The AI Security Institute is seeking experienced software, research, and security engineers for potential upcoming roles in its Core Technology Team. This team builds tools and infrastructure for advanced AI risk research, including projects like Inspect plugins, evaluation systems, model hosting, and research platforms.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the open-source community on plugins and features for Inspect.
- Implement support for new classes of open-weights models on the model hosting platform.
- Scale proxy infrastructure for secure model access.
- Support research teams with designing custom infrastructure for new projects.
- Assist with evaluation testing exercises of frontier AI models, ensuring robust infrastructure and monitoring setup.
Requirements
- Experience as a software engineer, research engineer, or security engineer.
- Must undergo a criminal record check and obtain baseline personnel security standard (BPSS) clearance.
- Strong preference for eligibility for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance.
- Adherence to the Civil Service Code.
Skills
- Frontier AI security
- Software engineering
- Research engineering
- Security engineering
- AI robustness
- Advanced AI architectures
Location
- Central London, UK
- Birmingham, UK
- Cardiff, UK
- Darlington, UK
- Edinburgh, UK
- Salford, UK
- Bristol, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Occasional remote work abroad
Experience Level
- All levels of seniority
Salary/Compensations
- £65,000–£145,000 GBP
- 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
- Impactful work with direct influence on global AI governance.
- Talented, mission-driven, and supportive colleagues.
- Work with the Prime Minister’s AI Advisor and leading AI companies.
- Opportunity to shape the first and best-resourced public-interest AI security research team.
- Pre-release access to frontier models and ample compute.
- Extensive operational support.
- Work with experts across national security, policy, and AI research.
- Ownership of important problems early for talented and driven individuals.
- 5 days off for learning and development.
- 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 similar government offices in other UK cities.
- 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 statutory + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time).
- 28.97% employer pension contribution on base salary.
- Discounts 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.
- Located within the UK government with direct lines to No. 10 (the Prime Minister's office).
- Works with frontier developers and governments globally.
- Uniquely positioned to mobilize governments for advanced AI safety.
- Possesses resources, unique agility, and international influence to shape AI development and government action.
Equal Opportunity
- The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.
- Runs a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
- Offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants at risk of redundancy who meet the minimum requirements.
- Committed to attracting, retaining, and investing in talent wherever it is found.