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Software Engineer - Core Technology

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London, GBR

Onsite

£65,000 to £145,000,

Discovered 3 weeks ago

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The AI Security Institute is a UK government organisation focused on understanding advanced AI risks and translating research into action.

The institute works with frontier AI developers and governments internationally.

The Research Unit is hiring software engineers for the Core Technology Team.

The team works in small groups on critical research-oriented software and infrastructure across a range of experience levels.

The work involves cutting-edge technologies and research problems with real-world impact.

Build tools and infrastructure used across AI security research, including the Inspect evaluation framework and systems for running evaluations at scale.
Develop sandbox plugins that support advanced agentic evaluations with safe code execution mechanisms.
Implement support for open-weights models on the model-hosting platform.
Design custom infrastructure for research projects.
Collaborate with the open-source community on Inspect and its plugin ecosystem.
Assist with frontier AI model evaluation testing and debug SDK or API compatibility issues.

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