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Software Engineer - Cyber & Autonomous Systems Team

AI Security Institute · London, UK

Posted about a month ago

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This role has been open
36 days
AI Security Institute's roles stay open a median of 50 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of AI Security Institute's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at AI Security Institute
high
7 stale, 1 reposted of 12 open
Hiring momentum
15 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

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About this role

The Software Engineer role in the Cyber & Autonomous Systems Team involves developing evaluation infrastructure and analysis tools for AI systems in cybersecurity. Daily tasks include building cyber ranges, running pre-deployment tests, and writing production-quality Python code. Engineers will collaborate with a mission-driven team to address complex technical challenges and contribute to the understanding of AI capabilities and risks for the UK government.

Our read on this posting2.8out of 5
benefits
5/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Delivering and maintaining production-quality software
  • Deep Python experience
  • Designing and evolving software systems or technical architecture
  • Strong interest in helping to improve the safety of AI systems
  • Take ownership of ambiguous, technically hard problems and follow through
  • Communicate clearly and raise engineering standards through feedback and mentoring

Nice to have

  • Cybersecurity or adversarial-security expertise
  • Building, operating, or analysing AI evaluations
  • Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems using DevOps practices
  • Familiarity with AI misuse and loss-of-control threat models

What you get

  • 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
  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of the tech stack beyond Python
  • Role may require security clearance, which could be a barrier for some candidates
  • Salary range is broad and dependent on experience, which may lead to negotiation variability

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Listed by AI Security Institute on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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