Alignment Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

Job description

About the AI Security Institute 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. 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. The deadline for applying to this role is 11th October 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth. Team Description Risks from misaligned AI systems are growing increasingly important as AI systems become more capable, autonomous, and integrated into society. Understanding these risks and stress-testing mitigations is crucial to ensuring advanced AI systems are developed and deployed safely and beneficially in the future. The Alignment Red Team is a specialised subteam within AISI's wider Red Team focused on detecting and evaluating misalignment in frontier AI systems. We perform novel research to develop techniques for finding misalignment, and pre- and post-deployment evaluations of frontier AI systems to understand loss-of-control risks associated with models, such as deceptive alignment, research sabotage, and reward-seeking. We share our findings with frontier AI companies and the UK and allied governments, to inform their respective deployments, research, and policy-making. We also work directly with safety teams at frontier labs, sharing our evaluation findings to help improve their model alignment training and monitoring methodology. We have conducted pre-deployment testing with multiple frontier AI companies for propensities related to research sabotage , cheating and unsanctioned cyber-attacks . We previously found that Claude models would sometimes refuse to help with benign AI safety research, an issue which Anthropic then evaluated for and fixed in their next model release . About the Role We're seeking Research Engineers and Research Scientists to join our Alignment Red T eam . We are open to hires at junior, senior, staff and principal research scientist / engineer levels. What You'll Be Doing Researching methods to automatically search for mis…