Advai

About the Company

We don’t make AI, we break it.

Advai is the UK leader in 3rd party Assurance, benchmarking, and monitoring of AI systems. We enable AI Adoption by helping organisations manage the risk, compliance and trustworthiness of their AI systems.

Our focus is to identify and mitigate the risks involved in AI adoption by discovering points of failure, in both internally developed and 3rd-party procured technologies.

Our tooling mitigates AI-specific security vulnerabilities and ensures the reliability, robustness and trustworthiness of your AI and Generative AI systems.

Advai’s monitoring platform aligns with your Governance frameworks, with technical metrics mapped to your risk and compliance needs.

We have driven initiatives for the UK Government’s AI Safety Institute, the Ministry of Defence, and leading private sector companies.

Listed Jobs

Company Name

Advai

Job Title

Junior Research Scientist (AI Safety and Security)

Job Description

**Job Title:** Junior Research Scientist – AI Safety & Security **Role Summary:** Develop and evaluate AI testing and monitoring solutions for a platform serving diverse AI domains (LLMs, computer vision, agentic systems). Collaborate with customers to define testing requirements, design rigorous evaluations, and contribute to automated tooling. Provide scientific expertise for consulting engagements and produce clear technical reports and presentations. **Expectations:** - Obtain UK Security Clearance. - Work within Agile, hybrid teams (minimum 2 days on‑site). - Translate complex technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders. - Stay current with AI safety research and emerging evaluation frameworks. **Key Responsibilities:** - Onboard customer AI use cases and define testing strategies. - Design, build, and execute rigorous evaluation pipelines. - Conduct research on AI testing methodologies to enhance platform science. - Develop and assess tooling for automated testing and monitoring. - Deliver scientific consulting support and create high‑quality written reports/presentations. - Implement robust APIs, containerisation, data pipelines, and database solutions as needed. - Apply statistical and scientific methods to ensure evidence‑based testing. - Document processes and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team. **Required Skills:** - Proficient in Python for data science and machine learning. - Strong foundation in machine learning (incl. reinforcement learning) and AI concepts. - Solid grounding in statistical and scientific methodology. - Analytical problem‑solving with proactive, innovative mindset. - Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to convey technical ideas to diverse audiences. - Experience with software engineering practices (API development, containerisation, databases, data pipelines). - Ability to work collaboratively in hybrid, Agile environments. **Required Education & Certifications:** - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field. - Eligibility for UK Security Clearance (National Security Vetting).

London, United kingdom

On site

Junior

05-02-2026