Teams at AI Security Institute

The Core Technology Team builds software, infrastructure, evaluation systems, model-hosting platforms, secure access tools, and research applications supporting frontier AI security work. Responsibilities may include contributing to Inspect plugins, supporting open-weight models, scaling secure proxy infrastructure, designing custom research infrastructure, and ensuring robust monitoring and testing for frontier AI evaluations. The opportunity is open to software, research, and security engineers across seniority levels.

The Research Director will lead advanced AI security research focused on frontier AI safety, robustness, and architectures. The role involves shaping research priorities, pursuing high-impact research, collaborating with governments and leading AI companies, publishing externally, and translating technical findings into AI governance and deployment action. The position offers access to frontier models, significant compute, and collaboration across national security, policy, and AI research teams.

Lead the Agentic AI Risk Modelling team’s strategy, research agenda, scientific direction, and delivery. Develop scenario-based analyses of advanced AI risks, identify practical mitigations, and support their adoption by government and industry. Hire, manage, and develop a multidisciplinary team while maintaining rigorous analytical standards and building trusted relationships with senior policy and technical stakeholders across government, academia, and frontier AI companies.