Description
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) exists to make frontier AI systems secure, trustworthy, and beneficial for society.
You will join AISI's Workplace Technology team, a sub-team of Business Operations, which is part of the Talent & Operations directorate.
The team has three missions:
- Identify and strategise: Work out what software and systems AISI needs, and how they should be run and governed.
- Procure, build and integrate: Buy or build the tools AISI needs, get them through government security and assurance, and automate the workflows that cause the most friction.
- Enable and upskill: Help staff adopt new tools and ways of working, and raise the quality of AI use across AISI.
Examples of the team's current work include:
- Connecting AI assistants to everyday work tools
- Improving the AI assistant platform
- Automating identity and access
- Rebuilding operational workflows
- Evaluating and deploying new AI tooling
- Fixing tech issues that cause a lot of friction
- Shaping AISI's long-term technology
The team is looking for someone with solid software engineering experience, who enjoys improving the way people work, thinks in systems, and prioritises well.
Essential skills include:
- Solid software engineering experience
- Experience improving workflows
- Systems thinking
- Prioritisation and follow-through
- Clear communication
- Good judgement about risk
- Critical use of AI
- Building trust within and across teams
Desirable skills include:
- Experience with enterprise IT or platforms
- Experience in government or a similar environment
The salary range is GBP 56,850 - 68,570 per year.
Benefits include:
- A culture of flexible working
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts