Safeguard Analysis Workstream Lead

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Department for Science, Innovation & Technology Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 338353**Salary**:

- £105,000 - £135,000- Base salary of between £55,805 (L5) - £68,770 (L6) which is supplemented with an allowance between £49,195 to £66,230- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Other- L5/L6**Contract type**:

- Temporary (not fair and open)
- Loan
- Secondment**Length of employment**:

- 12 to 18 months**Business area**:

- AI Safety Institute**Type of role**:

- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The AI Safety Institute is the first state-backed organisation focused on advanced AI safety for the public interest. We launched at the AI Safety Summit because we believe taking responsible action on this extraordinary technology requires a capable and empowered group of technical experts within government.

Our staff includes senior alumni from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, start-ups and the UK government, and ML professors from Oxford and Cambridge. We are now calling on the world’s top technical talent to build the institute from the ground up. This is a truly unique opportunity to help shape AI safety at an international level.

We have ambitious goals and need to move fast.

**Develop and conduct evaluations on advanced AI systems**
We will characterise safety-relevant capabilities, understand the safety and security of systems, and assess their societal impacts.

**Drive foundational AI safety research**
We will launch moonshot research projects and convene world-class external researchers.

**Facilitate information exchange**
We will establish clear information-sharing channels between the Institute and other national and international actors. These include stakeholders such as policymakers and international partners.

**Job description**:
**About the Role**

We are hiring for a Head of Safeguard Analysis to lead and build a team to develop and conduct analyses of how well the safety and security components (“safeguards”) of advanced AI systems stand up to a variety of threats.

**This role will involve**:

- ** Leading the strategy for the Safeguards team, **to design high quality analyses of safeguards. You will be responsible for delivering AISI’s safeguards portfolio, through in-house research and external commissions
- ** Developing evaluations aimed at assessing how safeguards stand up against a range of attack vectors, **drawing from techniques in ML evaluations and a range of security expertise
- ** Ensure evaluations are scientifically robust, **actionable, communicable and consider the current state of research
- ** Building and leading a team **by identifying talent gaps, leading recruitment to address those gaps and being responsible for the final hiring decision for members of technical staff on the workstream
- ** Collaborating with AISI teams **on specific risks areas to combine safeguard evaluations with evaluations of specific dangerous capabilities, and the AISI platform team to build tooling to perform such evaluations
- ** Developing evaluations aimed at assessing how safeguards stand up against a range of attack vectors, **drawing from techniques in ML evaluations and a range of security expertise
- ** Ensure evaluations are scientifically robust, **actionable, communicable and consider the current state of research
- ** Building and leading a team **by identifying talent gaps, leading recruitment to address those gaps and being responsible for the final hiring decision for members of technical staff on the workstream
- ** Collaborating with AISI teams **on specific risks areas to combine safeguard evaluations with evaluations of specific dangerous capabilities, and the AISI platform team to build tooling to perform such evaluations
- ** Working closely with partners **in the national security community, as well as other partners in industry, academia, and civil society
- ** Communicating research outputs in core AISI products **through government communications, research publications, and high-profile events like AI summits and conferences
- ** Leading longer-term research efforts **aimed at better understanding the efficacy of system safeguards

**Person specification**:
**You would be a great fit if you**:

- ** Are motivated by a strong desire to ensure positive outcomes for all of humanity**from the creation of AI systems
- ** Have substantial experience at the intersection of ML and information/cyber security**, like participating in ML red teams, or conducting research in adversarial ML or differential privacy
- ** Can set and steer research agendas **towards the most impactful avenues of research and development
- ** Have leadership experience; **you can manage a team of dedicated engineers and researchers, able to inspire, guide and maximize the potential of


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