AI Security Institute

• London

Lead and contribute to interdisciplinary research programmes on how frontier AI systems influence human decisions, designing large-scale studies, RCTs, model evaluations and benchmarks. Work spans computational social science, AI safety, machine learning and cognitive science, with opportunities to publish and engage policymakers and frontier labs.

Claude Code · Codex

• London
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £145,000 pa

The Chem Bio team researches, evaluates and mitigates chemical and biological risks from frontier AI systems, running capability evaluations, building benchmarks and datasets, and developing safeguards and monitoring methods. Findings are shared with frontier AI companies, UK officials and allied governments to inform deployment and policy. The role is open to research engineers and scientists at all seniority levels, with appointment conditional on obtaining UK Government Developed Vetting clearance.

• London
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Senior

Senior individual contributor building the shared platform, tooling and infrastructure for an interdisciplinary chem-bio research team, including LLM-based agent systems and evaluation frameworks. Works closely with researchers to translate varied needs into maintainable Python systems, while contributing to engineering standards and mentoring peers without line management.

AWS · Kubernetes · Slurm +2

• London
• Hybrid
• £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Engineers at all levels build and scale the shared tooling and infrastructure behind the institute's AI safety research, from Inspect plugins and large-scale evaluation systems to model hosting and secure proxy infrastructure. Work spans open-source collaboration, supporting research teams with custom setups, and hardening infrastructure for frontier model evaluations.

Inspect