Job description
AI Security Institute • London / National UK government offices incl. Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol
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.
London Salary: £47,355 - £52,090. National Salary: £44,620 - £49,065. New entrants will be expected to join at the minimum of the pay band.
*Closing date: 23:55 9th August 2026 (BST)*
The Red Team
The Red Team conducts cutting-edge research to identify, evaluate and stress test vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems, sharing our findings directly with leading AI companies, UK officials and allied governments. Our work shapes how the most powerful AI systems are deployed - you can read about it in The New York Times, The Economist and The Telegraph. Demand for this work is growing faster than we can currently meet - we're scaling to address that gap.
The Red Team is composed of three specialised sub-teams: Misuse (stress-testing and jailbreaking safeguards against misusing dangerous capabilities), Alignment (detecting and understanding misalignment and loss-of-control risks), and Control (stress-testing measures that identify and prevent agents taking harmful actions). While each has its own focus, we share methodologies, tooling and findings across the wider team, and our most impactful projects can draw on all three.
The Delivery function is what makes scaling our impact possible. As we grow, world-class research is necessary but not sufficient: our impact depends on getting insights in front of the right people, running commercial partnerships that multiply our capacity, hiring exceptional people fast, and building operations that work as the team grows. Delivery owns all of this: it's a small, high-leverage function and we're hiring someone to build and run much of it.
Role Description
As a Delivery Advisor on the Red Team, you will own several operational domains end-to-end and shape how the team runs as it grows. This is a high-agency role: you will be trusted to run whole workstreams with minimal oversight, hold relationships with external partners directly, and be a founding builder of a function we're deliberately keeping small and high-leverage.
You will work alongside our Sub-Team Leads, researchers, commercial and comms colleagues, external partners, and senior stakeholders across government. This is a chance to work close to cutting-edge AI safety research with real-world impact.
What you’ll work on
Delivery roles in AISI are broad by design, and we encourage individuals to actively shape their role and how the team works. Below is a non-exhaustive list:
- Own commercial delivery end-to-end. Run the commercial process from strategy through project scoping, procurement, contract management, and dissemination - working with Sub-Team Leads to scope maximally impactful projects and optimise deliverable quality against financial and researcher cost.
- Own the Red Team's engagement process. Act as the point of contact for inbound commissions across internal AISI, wider government, national security, and international partners; triage and scope them, produce high-quality briefing and presentation materials, and present to non-technical audiences yourself. Drive more proactive dissemination of the team's results through memos, decks, and rapid briefs.
- Run team operations. Own the operating rhythm and scaffolding that keeps the team moving: project-management tooling and workflows, talks and events logistics, and continuous improvement of internal processes.
- Support research delivery on the 'last mile'. Run a structured process for taking research to publication - timelining reviews and figure generation, sourcing seniors' and comms clearances on time, and making sure release goes smoothly - and build the delivery infrastructure behind it.
- Build people operations. Ship consistent people-management practice across the team, including hiring, development, and well-being.
As a member of AISI's Red Team, you would accelerate progress on frontier AI safety by owning projects such as:
- Engagement
- Lead a No.10 presentation end-to-end - liaise with our researchers to shape the content, build the deck, coordinate visit logistics, and get our work in front of senior decision-makers.
- Drive our national security mobilisation - map stakeholders, build relationships, identify shared priorities, and proactively disseminate our research insights to influence how partners understand and respond to frontier AI risk.
- Commercial
- Take full ownership of our external commercial budget - work with researchers to scope the most ambitious, high-ROI version of our commercial strategy, then run outreach and supplier identification, contract negotiation and management, and dissemination of deliverables.
- People / hiring
- Build the engine that scales the team - stand up our hiring pipeline end-to-end as we grow to 20+, defining role-specific processes that maintain our extremely high bar for talent density.
- Team ops
- Keep the team's operating rhythm tight - build and own Linear and automated workflows for recurring workstreams, logistics on researcher talks and events, and team socials.
Person Specification
We are not looking for a particular CV - people do well in Delivery roles from a wide range of backgrounds. You likely have a couple of years in a fast-paced environment - consulting, a startup, or similar - where you've owned things end-to-end, built from scratch, or taken on more responsibility quickly. What matters most is a set of aptitudes:
- Agency. You take responsibility for outcomes over activities and get things done without close direction – if something is stuck, you proactively surface and resolve without waiting for someone else to escalate. You finish what you start and do not let things drop across multiple concurrent threads.
- Ownership at pace. You have run projects, workstreams, or operational domains end-to-end - managing dependencies, risks and stakeholder expectations - and you execute reliably at speed.
- Communication. You communicate proactively and exceptionally well, adapting to expert or non-expert audiences - including senior stakeholder updates, decision-ready readouts, and explaining trade-offs under uncertainty. You are comfortable representing a team and holding relationships directly.
- Commercial judgement. You have scoped work, managed contracts or vendors, and optimised for outcome quality against cost.
- Credibility through service. You earn the trust of technical colleagues by repeatedly and reliably making their lives easier – influencing through competence.
- Adaptability. You are comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities, and good at working out a sensible path forward when things are unclear.
- Builder mindset. When work is repetitive, you look for ways to simplify, automate, or remove it - using AI tools and automation to shape repeatable workflows, not only as a productivity user.
- Technical curiosity. You engage readily with technical detail, asking good questions of engineers and researchers and building enough context to make informed decisions.
This might not be the role for you if:
- You want to conduct research yourself. You will be a force multiplier across our sub-teams, but you will not be doing research directly.
- You want to lead or set strategy from day one. You'll have real influence over how the team runs, and clear room to grow into more – earned by delivering first.
- You want a single, clearly-defined remit. You will hold several operational domains at once, and what is on your plate will change day-to-day and as the team scales.
- You only want to work on strategy. A meaningful share of the job is the practical, hands-on work of actually making things happen.
- You need to build first principles understanding before you act. You will often be adding value in areas you are still learning.
Selection Process:
Application: CV & Application questions
Interview 1: Experience & motivations interview
Interview 2: Task & Civil Service Behaviours interview (Communicating & Influencing, Making Effective Decisions & Delivering at Pace)
Interview 3: Final stage interview with Senior Leadership
Please note that in the event of a high volume of applicants, applications will be sifted on CV alone
London Salary: £47,355 - £52,090. National Salary: £44,620 - £49,065. New entrants will be expected to join at the minimum of the pay band.
Salary
£44,620 - £52,090 GBP
What We Offer
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.
- Work with the Prime Minister’s AI Advisor and leading AI companies.
- Opportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security.
Resources & access
- Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute.
- Extensive operational support so you can focus on research and ship quickly.
- Work with experts across national security, policy, AI research and adjacent sciences.
Growth & autonomy
- If you’re talented and driven, you’ll own important problems early.
- 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development, and funding for conferences and external collaborations.
- Freedom to pursue research bets without product pressure.
- Opportunities to publish and collaborate externally.
Life & family*
- Modern central London office (cafes, food court, gym), or where applicable, option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol.
- Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment.
- At least 25 days’ annual leave, 8 public holidays, extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering.
- Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time).
- On top of your salary, we contribute 28.97% of your base salary to your pension.
- Discounts and benefits for cycling to work, donations and retail/gyms.
Eligibility
Not all staff working in a government department or accredited non-departmental public body are considered to be civil servants.
If any of the following statements apply to your circumstances then you should select ‘No’ when answering:
- You are a member of agency staff working in a government department
- You are employed by an external organisation contracted into government roles
- You are a self-employed contractor working in a government department
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
For more information on job nationality requirements and the right to work in the UK, see the Civil Service Nationality rules (opens in a new window) and the UK Visas and Immigration rules (opens in a new window)
Interviews under the Disability Confident Scheme
We want to encourage disabled people to apply for jobs and give them an opportunity to show their skills, talent and abilities at the interview stage. The Civil Service runs a Disability Confident Scheme, offering an interview (opens in a new window) to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.
To be considered for an interview under this scheme you must have:
- a physical or mental impairment, or a long term health condition which has a substantial and long term (over 12 months) adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities
- demonstrated in your application and testing stages that you meet the minimum job criteria as set out in the advert or person specification for the post
Reasonable adjustments
We want to support you if you need an adjustment in the recruitment process, even if you do not feel you qualify for the Disability Confident Scheme.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, diabetes, or schizophrenia.
Some of the adjustments we have offered are:
- application or interview help
- a time of day that works for you
- extra time
- sign language interpretation
- advice about assistive technology
For more information, you can read the government guidance on Reasonable adjustments for workers with disabilities or health conditions (opens in a new window)
Declaration
- All the information I've given in my application form is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and relates to my own experiences
- This is my only application for this role and accurately reflects my suitability
- I understand a check against the National Collection of Criminal Records and against other records or databases may be undertaken if I'm offered a position
- I understand that I’ll be asked for evidence of identification if I’m offered a post
- I understand my application may be rejected or I may be subject to disciplinary action if I've given false information or withheld relevant details
- I understand my application may be rejected or I may be subject to disciplinary action if evidence of plagiarism is detected. Examples of plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
If you have any concerns about what we will do with your information, please see our privacy notice (opens in a new window).
Additional InformationUse of AI in Applications
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Internal Fraud Database
The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned. The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud. In instances such as this, civil servants are then banned for 5 years from further employment in the civil service. The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations. DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service. In this way, the policy is ensured and the repetition of internal fraud is prevented. For more information please see - Internal Fraud Register.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and get baseline personnel security standard (BPSS) clearance before they can be appointed. Additionally, there is a strong preference for eligibility for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance . Some roles may require higher levels of clearance, and we will state this by exception in the job advertisement. See our vetting charter here.Near miss candidates
Candidates who are judged to be a near miss at interview may be considered for other positions in AISI which may be at a lower grade but have a potential skills match.Nationality requirements
We may be able to offer roles to applicant from any nationality or background. As such we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the standard nationality requirements (opens in a new window).