🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll design and build reliable systems for a team researching AI risks related to chemistry and biology. You'll work closely with researchers to translate their needs into maintainable platform components and contribute to engineering standards.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design and build reliable systems for research platform components
• Work closely with researchers to translate varied needs into engineering solutions
• Own and deliver significant technical projects from design through maintenance
• Write high-quality production code in Python with strong engineering discipline

📋 Requirements

• Significant experience writing production-level Python code that is scalable and robust
• Strong infrastructure and platform skills with cloud environments (AWS) and Kubernetes
• Experience owning technical projects or major systems as a senior individual contributor
• Familiarity with AI/ML ecosystem: OpenAI-compatible APIs, PyTorch, and LLM tooling

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience working in a research environment
• Familiarity with computational biology tools or datasets
• Experience building internal developer platforms or CI/CD systems

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🇬🇧 UK Government SC Clearance sponsored
• 🏢 Hybrid work from Whitehall, London with flexible days
• 💰 Competitive salary in a mission-driven role
• 🛡️ Direct impact on AI safety policy and regulation

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 3-5 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Application Review· 1-2 weeks
2. 2Technical Phone Screen· 45 min
3. 3On-site Interview (coding, system design, behavioral)· 3 hours

🚩 Heads Up

• Requires UK nationality and SC clearance with 5-year residency, and possibly DV clearance with 10-year residency
• Mandatory 9 days per fortnight in office, at least 3 days/week in London
• Broad role mixing platform engineering with research support, could be ambiguous