Software Engineer, Frontier AI Security & Autonomy

AI Security Institute (AISI); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

The AI Security Institute is seeking exceptional Software Engineers at all levels to join the frontier AI security team in London. You will build state-of-the-art evaluation infrastructure, develop analysis tooling, and lead testing exercises, collaborating with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable Python software with strong testing and observability.

Mentorship and impactful research opportunities abound.

Qualifications

• Deep Python expertise and strong production-quality software development experience.
• Ability to design and evolve software architectures for scalable systems.
• Interest in improving the safety of AI systems and handling ambiguous problems.
• Clear communication and mentoring to raise engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Build evaluation infrastructure for cyber/autonomy evaluations at scale.
• Develop analysis tooling to convert results into actionable insights.
• Lead testing exercises, identify research questions, and report findings.
• Deliver engineering work and own projects from design through maintenance.
• Write production-quality Python code with robust testing and observability.

Skills

Python

Production-grade software

Software architecture

Ownership

Communication

AI safety

Job description

The AI Security Institute is seeking exceptional Software Engineers at all levels to join the frontier AI security team in London. You will build state-of-the-art evaluation infrastructure, develop analysis tooling, and lead testing exercises, collaborating with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable Python software with strong testing and observability.

Mentorship and impactful research opportunities abound.