Research Engineer/Research Scientist
Quick answer
AI Security Institute is hiring research scientists and research engineers for its Misuse Red Team in London, UK, with a salary range of £65,000 to £145,000.
- Role
- Research Engineer/Research Scientist
- Organization
- AI Security Institute
- Location
- London, UK
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior
- Compensation
- Most offers land between £65,000 and £145,000 made up of a base salary plus a technical allowance (take-home salary = base + technical allowance). An additional 28.97% employer pension contribution is paid on the base salary.
- Category
- Engineering & Technology
The role
The AI Security Institute is seeking research scientists and research engineers to develop and analyze attacks and protections for systems based on large language models. The role involves designing, building, running, and evaluating methods to attack and evaluate safeguards, and building a benchmark for asynchronous monitoring for signs of misuse and jailbreak development.
What you'll do
- Designing, building, running and evaluating methods to automatically attack and evaluate safeguards
- Building a benchmark for asynchronous monitoring for signs of misuse and jailbreak development across multiple model interactions
- Investigating novel attacks and defences for data poisoning LLMs with backdoors or other attacker goals
- Performing adversarial testing of frontier AI system safeguards and producing reports that are impactful and action-guiding for safeguard developers
What it takes
- Hands-on research experience with large language models (LLMs)
- A demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed publications in top-tier ML conferences or journals
- Ability and experience writing clean, documented research code for machine learning experiments
- A sense of mission, urgency, responsibility for success
- An ability to bring your own research ideas and work in a self-directed way, while also collaborating effectively and prioritizing team efforts over extensive solo work
- Experience working on adversarial robustness, other areas of AI security, or red teaming against any kind of system
What you'll bring
How we treat you
Impact you couldn't have anywhere else, incredibly talented, mission-driven and supportive colleagues, direct influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally, work with the Prime Minister’s AI Advisor and leading AI companies, opportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security, pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute, extensive operational support so you can focus on research and ship quickly, work with experts across national security, policy, AI research and adjacent sciences, if you’re talented and driven, you’ll own important problems early, 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development, and funding for conferences and external collaborations, freedom to pursue research bets without product pressure, opportunities to publish and collaborate externally
Frequently asked questions
Where is the job located?
The job is located in London, UK, with the option for occasional remote work abroad.
What is the compensation?
Most offers land between £65,000 and £145,000 made up of a base salary plus a technical allowance (take-home salary = base + technical allowance). An additional 28.97% employer pension contribution is paid on the base salary.
What are the key qualifications required?
Key qualifications include hands-on research experience with large language models (LLMs), a demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed publications in top-tier ML conferences or journals, and the ability to write clean, documented research code for machine learning experiments.
How do I apply?
Applications should be submitted by 30th September 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth.
How to apply
Apply directly on AI Security Institute's site. We link straight through — no resume parsing, no profile to fill out.
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