Overview

The AI Security Institute is the world’s largest and best-funded team dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action. We’re in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10, and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.Role

Software Engineering Manager – Core Technology Team. You will lead small teams on critical research-oriented software and infrastructure within the Core Technology Team, working with world-class researchers and staff, including alumni from Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google, Apple, and professors from Oxford and Cambridge.About The Core Technology Team

The Core Technology Team builds tools and infrastructure used across all of our research work. This includes projects like Inspect (our open-source evaluation framework), systems for running evaluations at scale, and hosting frontier open-weights models for evaluations or human studies.Responsibilities

Add a feature to our sandbox plugin system for Inspect to support advanced agentic evals with safe mechanisms for models to write and execute arbitrary codeImplement support for a new class of open-weights model on our model hosting platformSupport a research team by designing custom infrastructure for new research projectsCollaborate with the open-source community on features in Inspect or Inspect''s plugin ecosystemAssist with evaluation testing of frontier AI models and debug issues in Inspect arising from API changes in the lab''s latest SDKAs An Engineering Manager You Will Also

Support engineers at varying levels with career growth and coachingWork with your team and other leads to develop roadmaps and prioritiesCollaborate with managers and leads across AI Security Institute to adopt technologies that support new kinds of researchLook after your team''s wellbeing and psychological safetyPerson Specification

You may be a good fit if you have some of the following skills, experience and attitudes:Leading a small developer team, either as manager or tech leadLine management of software engineers, ranging from junior-level to staffDesigning, shipping, and maintaining complex tech productsImproving technical standards across a team through mentoring and feedbackStrong written and verbal communication skillsExperience working with a world-class research team comprised of scientists and engineersPython experience and understanding of the wider ecosystem/toolingExperience building and maintaining systems on AWS or other cloud providers using infrastructure as codeMotivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if you don’t meet all the above criteria.Required Experience

Written communicationVerbal communicationTeamworkWriting production quality codePythonInterpersonal skillsTackling challenging problemsDesired Experience

Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure or Dev Ops (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, CDK, Docker, etc.)Cybersecurity expertiseML Ops (vLLM, agent frameworks, fine-tuning, RAG systems, etc.)Salary and Benefits

We are hiring individuals at all ranges of seniority and experience within this research unit. You will be supported through our assessment process to understand our internal benchmarking. The full range of salaries is available below and includes base salary, technical allowance, and additional benefits as detailed here.Level 3 - Total Package £65,000 - £75,000 (base £35,720; technical talent allowance £29,280 - £39,280)Level 4 - Total Package £85,000 - £95,000 (base £42,495; technical talent allowance £42,505 - £52,505)Level 5 - Total Package £105,000 - £115,000 (base £55,805; technical talent allowance £49,195 - £59,195)Level 6 - Total Package £125,000 - £135,000 (base £68,770; technical talent allowance £56,230 - £66,230)Level 7 - Total Package £145,000 (base £68,770; technical talent allowance £76,230)Other Information

There are pension options available. This role is aligned with frontier AI safety work. Selection processes follow best practices. We are committed to equality and diversity in our recruitment.Job Details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior levelEmployment type: Full-timeJob function: Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries: Government AdministrationReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at AI Security Institute by 2xGet notified about new Software Engineering Manager jobs in London, United Kingdom.

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