AI Security Institute
Technology
SoftwareEngineer-CoreTechnology
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“Software Engineer - Core Technology at AI Security Institute. Skills: Core Technology, Software Engineering, Infrastructure. Add feature to sandbox plugins. Implement support for new model class”
Industry & Context.
Tackling challenging problems
Criminal record check, BPSS clearance
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Writing production quality code, Writing code efficiently, Python, Written communication, Verbal communication, Teamwork, Interpersonal skills, Tackling challenging problems
Nice to Have
Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure, Dev Ops expertise, Cybersecurity expertise, ML Ops expertise
What You'll Do.
Add feature to sandbox plugins
Implement support for new model class
Support research team designing infrastructure
Collaborate with open-source community
Assist with evaluation testing
Debug issues in Inspect
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Small teams; World-class research team; Scientists and engineers
Communication Scope
Written communication; Verbal communication
Full Job Description
About the AI Security Institute 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’re 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. We’re here because 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. Role Description The AI Security Institute's Research Unit is looking for motivated and talented Software Engineers to join AISI's Core Technology Team. We are looking for exceptional candidates at all experience levels, from junior through to senior or staff, to work in small teams on a range of critical research-oriented software and infrastructure. In this role, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies on research problems with real-world impact, and receive mentorship and coaching from your manager and the technical leads on your team. You'll also regularly interact with world-famous researchers and other incredible staff (including alumni from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Apple, and professors from Oxford and Cambridge). About our Core Technology Team AISI Core Technology Team comprises several teams building tools and infrastructure used across all of our research work. This includes projects like Inspect (our open-source evaluation framework), systems for running evaluations at scale, and hosting frontier open-weights models for evaluations or human studies. As a software engineer on one of these teams, you might: Add a feature to one of our “sandbox plugins” for Inspect, supporting advanced agentic evals with safe mechanisms to let models write and execute arbitrary code Implement support for a new class of open-weights model on our model host
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