Engineering Lead - Human Influence
<div class="content-intro"><h2>About the AI Security Institute</h2>
<p>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 (the Prime Minister's office), and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.</p>
<p>We’re here because governments are critical for advanced AI going well, and UK AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilise them. With our resources, unique agility and international influence, this is the best place to shape both AI development and government action.</p></div><h2><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">The deadline for applying to this role is Sunday 11th October 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth. <br></span></span></strong><strong><span data-contrast="auto"><br>Team</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> <strong>Description</strong></span></h2>
<p><span data-contrast="none">The Human Influence (HI) team focuses on the ways in which AI can influence human beliefs, decisions, and behaviour. </span><span data-contrast="auto">A substantial class of AI risk operates through people. AI systems can persuade people to change their beliefs and to take action; can build trusting relationships with people in order to exploit them; can extract private information from them; and can hold delegated ownership of high-stakes decisions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Our work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods from computational social science, AI safety and security, cognitive and behavioural science, machine learning, and data science. Typical projects include running rigorous human-AI interaction studies and randomised controlled trials, building evaluations and benchmarks that track AI capabilities across model releases, eliciting model capabilities through fine-tuning and self-play, and developing datasets to monitor real-world risk exposure and severity.</span></p>
<h2><strong>Role Description</strong></h2>
<p><span class="TextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">We are </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">looking </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">for </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">an</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8"> Engineering </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW260952635 BCX8">Lead</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">to</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8"> manage and oversee a growing team of engineers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">.</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">The team’s work </span><span class="NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW260952635 BCX8">includes:</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">developing new evaluations and technical capability demonstrations</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">building robust data </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">pipelines, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">driving</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8"> world-leading research studies using complex multi-agent setups, finetuning </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">LLMs (>100B parameters), and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW260952635 BCX8">building custom Reinforcement Learning environments.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW104050567 BCX8">Projects the Engineering Lead </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW104050567 BCX8">might lead or deliver as individual contributor include:</span></span></p>
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<li><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="TextRun SCXW90952646 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW90952646 BCX8">Designing the scalable system architecture</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW90952646 BCX8">underpinning the repeatable delivery and analysis of model </span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW90952646 BCX8">evaluations</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW90952646 BCX8">and benchmarks</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW90952646 BCX8">.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW90952646 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="TextRun SCXW179107279 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179107279 BCX8">Building an automated pipeline that recruits participants and runs a human-AI experiment end-to-end, to track how a given capability shifts with each new model release</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179107279 BCX8">.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW179107279 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="EOP Selected SCXW179107279 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"><span class="TextRun SCXW179280954 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW179280954 BCX8">Designing and building a toolkit for multi-agent studies, which allows researchers to run synthetic as well as human-in-the-loop studies seamlessly and with performance guarantees.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW179280954 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="EOP Selected SCXW179107279 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"><span class="TextRun SCXW244218727 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW244218727 BCX8">Delivering ambitious, engineering-heavy research projects on Human Influence topics, for instance by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW244218727 BCX8">leveraging</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW244218727 BCX8"> post-training techniques on a large compute cluster.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW244218727 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"> </span></span></span></li>
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<p><span class="EOP Selected SCXW260952635 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"><span class="EOP Selected SCXW179107279 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335557856":16777215,"335559739":0}"><span class="TextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8" lang="EN-GB" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">This is a leadership role. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">Competitive candidates will be </span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW252070289 BCX8">strong engineers</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">a track record</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> of leading </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">engineering</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> projects</span> <span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">from scoping to production.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> The Human Influence Engineering </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">Lead </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">will</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> work with</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> Human Influence team leadership and senior</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8"> AISI </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">stakeholders to develop and deliver an engineering roadmap for the Human Influence team</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">, and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">will </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">lead and grow </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">HI </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">Engineering function, including </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">managing Research </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">and Software </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW252070289 BCX8">Engineers.</span></span><span class="EOP Selected SCXW252070289 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></span></span></p>
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