Expression of Interest Core Technology Team
UK government research organisation that evaluates advanced AI risks and develops and tests mitigations to inform governments.
Funding history
Investors
About The AI Security Institute (AISI)
The AI Security Institute is a research organisation within the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. It tests leading AI systems, conducts technical research on advanced-AI risks and solutions, develops evaluation infrastructure, and informs UK and allied-government policy.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will register your interest for potential upcoming software engineering, research engineering, and security engineering roles. You may build and scale research infrastructure, contribute to Inspect plugins, support model hosting and secure model access, and help design robust infrastructure and monitoring for frontier AI evaluations.
Requirements
- Undergo a criminal record check and obtain BPSS clearance before appointment
- Be eligible for CTC clearance, strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the open-source community on Inspect plugins and features
- Implement support for new open-weights model classes on the model hosting platform
- Scale proxy infrastructure for secure model access
- Design custom infrastructure for new research projects
- Support frontier AI model evaluation exercises with robust and secure infrastructure and monitoring
Benefits
- Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute
- Operational support
- Modern central London office or, where applicable, similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford, or Bristol
- Hybrid working and flexibility for occasional remote work abroad
- Stipends for work-from-home equipment
- At least 25 days of annual leave
- 8 public holidays
- Extra team-wide breaks
- 3 days off for volunteering
- Paid parental leave
- 28.97% employer pension contribution on base salary
- Cycling, donation, retail, and gym discounts and benefits
