UX Engineer - AI Safety Institute-Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
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UX Engineer - AI Safety Institute
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 28th August 2024
Details
Reference number
343141
Salary
£85,000 - £115,000
Base salary of between £42,495 (L4) - £55,805 (L5) which is supplemented with an allowance between £42,505 to £54,781
A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade
Other
L4, L5
Contract type
Fixed term
Temporary (not fair and open)
Loan
Secondment
Length of employment
12 to 24 months
Business area
AI Safety Institute
Type of role
Information Technology
Working pattern
Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time
Number of jobs available
1
Contents
Location
London
About the job
Job summary
人工智能安全研究所是第一个由国家支持的组织，专注于为公众利益提供先进的人工智能安全. 我们在人工智能安全峰会上启动，因为我们认为，对这一非凡的技术采取负责任的行动，需要政府内部有能力和授权的技术专家小组.
Our staff includes senior alumni from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, start-ups and the UK government, and ML professors from Oxford and Cambridge. 我们现在呼吁世界顶尖的技术人才从零开始建设这个研究所. 这是一个在国际层面上帮助塑造人工智能安全的真正独特机会.
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
我们将启动“登月计划”，召集世界一流的外部研究人员.
Facilitate information exchange
我们将在研究所与其他国家和国际行为体之间建立明确的信息共享渠道. These include stakeholders such as policymakers and international partners.
Our Inclusive Environment
我们正在建设一种包容的文化，使国务院成为一个优秀的工作场所，让我们的员工感到受到重视, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
What we Value:
- Diverse Perspectives: 我们相信，丰富的经验和背景对我们的成功至关重要. 我们欢迎来自代表性不足群体的个人十大正规博彩网站评级我们这一重要使命.
- Collaborative Spirit: 我们在团队合作和开放协作中茁壮成长，重视每一个贡献，无论大小.
- Innovation and Impact: 我们致力于在前沿人工智能安全和能力领域发挥现实世界的作用, and we encourage innovative thinking and bold ideas.
Job description
About the Role
我们的平台工程团队正在使我们的核心工作能够评估最先进的人工智能系统. 这需要多种技能:创建专家界面和高度可访问的红队前端, providing fast and secure inference channels for internal and external models, as well as MLOps capabilities for hosting and fine-tuning our own models.
This is a cross-functional team that collaborates closely with scientists, domain experts, 研究工程师开发全新的评估工具，利用新兴的研究成果, while maintaining high levels of privacy and security integrity.
我们将混合使用我们自己的定制和开源评估, analysis and visualisation frameworks.
虽然我们的大部分工作都需要原型设计和证明全新的方法, 我们的期望是最终提供一个坚如磐石的核心平台，让AISI的其他成员可以依赖.
当涉及到软件架构时，您将被期望带来您自己的经验和观点, and the design of the user-facing parts of our evaluations platform.
On any given day you will be interacting with researchers, research engineers, UX designers or our operations team to define requirements, turn those requirements into designs, prototypes or production code in collaboration with other engineers, and make sure that our platform is bug-free, 稳定并覆盖了大量的测试，以承受不断增加的评估流量.
现有公务员及经认可的新进公务员机构的申请人均可申请, 但只会考虑借调(公务员)或借调(经认可的本地公务员)。. 在开始申请程序之前，必须事先获得贷款发放协议. In the case of Civil Servants, 贷款的条款将由原居地及接待部门与公务员商定. This includes grade on return.
Person specification
You will need combined experience in a comparable role:
- Web Development
- (Dev) Tools Development
- Application Frontend Development
- UX Design
- UX Research
我们强烈鼓励多面手申请，但没有必要勾选所有的方框.
This role may be a great fit if you:
- Deeply care about the experience of a diverse range of users, 从机器学习研究人员和领域专家到一群高级人工智能模型的人类评估人员
- Have demonstrable expertise in UX design principles and methodologies, 最好专注于为复杂的专家工作流程创建直观和以用户为中心的界面
- Have experience in developing and maintaining design systems and standards，确保各种机器学习工具和平台的一致性和可用性
- Are proficient in developing wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using tools like Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
- Have some experience in conducting user research, usability testing, 并收集反馈以改进您创建的工具和界面的设计
- Have expertise in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python)，它使您能够在快速需要为内部用户构建MVP的情况下自己实现工具和接口
- 有与其他软件开发人员和设计人员密切合作的良好记录; 但也包括有着不同背景的专家用户(比如机器学习或社会科学研究人员)
- Work autonomously and in a self-directed way with high agency, thriving in a constantly changing environment and a steadily growing team, 同时找出解决特定问题的最佳和最有效的方法
- Bring your own voice and experience 但也要热心地支持你的同事，愿意为团队的成功做任何必要的事情，并在政府内部找到解决问题的新方法
- Have a sense of mission, urgency, and responsibility for success, 展示解决问题的能力，并准备好获得完成工作所必需的知识
此外，我们重视(但不要求)机器学习研究方面的经验:
- Experience with Machine Learning Interfaces applications or tools
- 与机器学习研究人员和数据科学家合作，了解他们的需求，并将其转化为功能前端解决方案
- Familiarity with backend technologies (e.g., Python, Node.js) and machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), 更好地将前端工具与机器学习模型和数据处理管道集成在一起
Core requirements
- You should be able to spend at least 4 days per week on working with us
- You should be able to join us for at least 12 months
- 你应该可以在我们在伦敦(白厅)的办公室工作一周的部分时间, but we provide flexibility for remote work
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £85,000, Department for Science, Innovation & Technology contributes £11,473元，让你成为公务员固定收益退休金计划的成员. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
