Backend Engineer for AGI Safety Tools & Evaluations

COL Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering AI research organization is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to develop innovative tools for frontier AGI safety research, focusing on internal tooling and automated evaluation pipelines. You'll lead major feature development, collaborate closely with researchers, and advocate for strong software design practices. Ideal candidates bring over 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably in Python, and have a passion for building impactful software. This is a full-time, in-person role in London, with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Salary: 100k - 200k GBP

Flexible work hours

Unlimited vacation and sick leave

Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided

Yearly professional development budget of $1,000

Paid work trips and retreats

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading successful software tools or products.
• Background in LLM evaluations or agents is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and iterate on internal tools for language model evaluations.
• Lead major feature development from ideation to implementation.
• Collaborate with researchers to address challenges.

Skills

Production-quality Python code

Collaboration

Software design practices

Debugging and implementation

Job description

A pioneering AI research organization is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to develop innovative tools for frontier AGI safety research, focusing on internal tooling and automated evaluation pipelines. You'll lead major feature development, collaborate closely with researchers, and advocate for strong software design practices. Ideal candidates bring over 5 years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably in Python, and have a passion for building impactful software. This is a full-time, in-person role in London, with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.