Alignment Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

<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>The deadline for applying to this role is 11th October 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth. &nbsp;</strong></h2> <h2><strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">Team Description </span></span></strong><span data-contrast="none"><span data-ccp-parastyle="heading 2">&nbsp;</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></h2> <p><span data-contrast="none">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.</span>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br><span data-contrast="none">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.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="none">We have conducted pre-deployment testing with multiple frontier AI companies for propensities related to