Head of Technical Standards and Best Practice
UK government research organisation that evaluates advanced AI risks and develops and tests mitigations to inform governments.
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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.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead AISI's work to define the technical best practice needed to manage the most serious risks from frontier AI development and to get it adopted. You'll work with AISI leadership to set direction, oversee researchers and experts who draft clear and actionable best-practice documents, lead technical engagement with frontier developers, evaluators, standards bodies and government partners, and line manage and grow the core team. You'll report to a Deputy Director.
Requirements
- Strong technical understanding of frontier AI systems and the practices used to make them safe and secure, e.g. 5+ years in AI security research, engineering or AI evaluation
- Track record of thought leadership on safer frontier AI development practices
- Experience leading a team or managing a large programme involving several organisations
- Experience building credibility with senior technical people
- Clear, precise writing for technical experts and senior decision-makers
- Able to work at least 4 days per week
- Able to work from the London office roughly 3 days per week
Responsibilities
- Decide which areas of best practice to work on and in what order
- Own long-term strategy and make the case for it inside and outside AISI
- Oversee researchers and experts developing best practice and consolidate their expertise into clear, usable documents
- Ensure each document sets out specific, actionable and verifiable practices
- Lead technical engagement with frontier AI developers, evaluators, standards bodies and government partners
- Oversee publications and company engagement and choose the best route to adoption
- Line manage and grow the core team
- Set up a repeatable process from first draft to publication
Benefits
- Annual stipends for learning and development
- Funding for conferences and external collaborations
- Hybrid working
- 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
- Paid parental leave (36 weeks UK statutory shared plus 3 extra paid weeks plus option for unpaid time)
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of base salary
- Cycle to work, donation and retail/gym discounts
- Pre-release access to frontier models and ample compute
- 5 days off
Hiring Process
Initial interview, take home test, second interview and review of take home test, third interview, final interview with members of the senior team (some or all stages).