Research Engineer Human Influence

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UK government research organisation that evaluates advanced AI risks and develops and tests mitigations to inform governments.

London, United Kingdom

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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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About the Role

You will build scalable systems for model evaluations, benchmarks, and LLM post-training. You will develop reinforcement-learning environments, apply interpretability methods, deliver engineering-heavy research projects, and analyse model behaviour to design mitigations.

Requirements

  • AI safety
  • Machine learning
  • Large language model post-training
  • Fine-tuning
  • Reinforcement learning
  • PyTorch
  • Keras
  • JAX
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Ray
  • FastAPI
  • SLURM
  • Model evaluation
  • Benchmark
  • Production code

Responsibilities

  • Design and build reinforcement-learning environments to mitigate harmful model behaviour
  • Apply interpretability methods to identify concerning model behaviour and design mitigations
  • Build scalable architecture for model evaluations and benchmarks
  • Deliver engineering-heavy research projects using post-training techniques on large compute clusters

Benefits

  • Pre-release access to frontier models and compute
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Conference and external collaboration funding
  • Hybrid working
  • Occasional remote work abroad
  • Work-from-home equipment stipend
  • At least 25 days of annual leave
  • 8 public holidays
  • Additional team-wide breaks
  • 3 volunteering days
  • Paid parental leave
  • Employer pension contribution
  • Cycling, donation, retail, and gym discounts