Research Engineer: Human Influence & AI Safety Impact

AI Security Institute; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

AI Security Institute is seeking a Research Engineer to join the Human Influence team. You will contribute to scalable LLM post-training and reinforcement learning projects, and help evaluate model performance and safety across large compute resources.

The role emphasizes building robust evaluation pipelines, applying interpretability methods, and delivering engineering-heavy research on AI risk and human influence topics. A multidisciplinary background is valued.

Qualifications

• Clear understanding of the current AI safety literature and Human Influence topics.
• Proven ability to deploy a benchmark/evaluation pipeline to users or scale research artifacts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing scalable RL and post-training workflows for LLMs.
• Using interpretability tools to analyze model behavior and mitigation strategies.
• Building and maintaining evaluation pipelines and benchmarks across model releases.

Skills

Communication

ML fundamentals

Benchmark/evaluation deployment

Tools

PyTorch

Keras

JAX

Job description

AI Security Institute is seeking a Research Engineer to join the Human Influence team. You will contribute to scalable LLM post-training and reinforcement learning projects, and help evaluate model performance and safety across large compute resources.

The role emphasizes building robust evaluation pipelines, applying interpretability methods, and delivering engineering-heavy research on AI risk and human influence topics. A multidisciplinary background is valued.