Software Engineer - Core Technology

AI Security Institute is the world's largest team focused on understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action. They are seeking motivated Software Engineers to join their Core Technology Team, where candidates will work on research-oriented software and infrastructure using cutting-edge technologies with real-world impact.

Responsibilities

• 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 hosting platform
• Support a research team with designing custom infrastructure for a new research project
• Collaborate with the open-source community on a feature in Inspect or Inspect's plugin ecosystem
• Assist with an evaluation testing exercise of a frontier AI model, debugging issues that appear in Inspect from API changes in the lab's latest SDK

Skills

• Writing production quality code
• Writing code efficiently
• Python
• Written communication
• Verbal communication
• Teamwork
• Interpersonal skills
• Tackling challenging problems
• Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure or Dev Ops (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CDK, Docker, etc.)
• Cybersecurity expertise
• ML Ops (vLLM, agent frameworks, fine-tuning, RAG systems, etc.)

Benefits

• An additional 28.97% employer pension contribution is paid on the base salary.
• 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development, and funding for conferences and external collaborations.
• Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment.
• At least 25 days
  9 annual leave, 8 public holidays, extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering.
• Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time).
• Discounts and benefits for cycling to work, donations and retail/gyms.
• Modern central London office (cafes, food court, gym), or where applicable, option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol.

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