Skills

Python Monitoring Problem-solving Presentation Skills Research Machine Learning Computer Vision Databases Agile Data Science

Job Specifications

Junior Research Scientist (AI Safety and Security)

Salary: £45,000 per annum

Location: London, UK

Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Work Model: Hybrid (Minimum 2 days a week in the office)

ABOUT US

Advai are at the leading edge of AI innovation, focusing on AI testing and evaluation to help our customers deploy safe and secure AI with confidence. We work across a wide range of AI domains, from LLMs to computer vision to agentic systems. Our mission is to enable AI deployment across government and the economy, to unlock AI's transformational benefits. As we expand our platform with more automated tooling, we seek a motivated Research Scientist to join our dynamic team in London.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are seeking a Research Scientist to help design, build and evaluate AI testing and monitoring solutions across our platform. You will work directly with customers to understand their AI use cases, establish what needs to be tested and how, and design evaluations that offer real value. You will also contribute to building and evaluating tooling for our automated testing and monitoring platform and provide scientific expertise for our consulting work.

The ideal candidate combines strong scientific and problem-solving skills with solid Python proficiency and a collaborative, proactive mindset.

Must be able to apply for UK Security Clearance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Onboard customer AI use cases onto our platform, working collaboratively to establish testing requirements and evaluation strategies

- Design and build rigorous evaluations that offer real value to our customers across diverse AI domains

- Conduct research into AI testing methodologies, contributing to the scientific foundations of our platform

- Build and evaluate tooling for our automated testing and monitoring platform

- Provide scientific expertise for consulting engagements, communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

- Produce high-quality written reports and presentations to support client work

- Apply your statistical and scientific expertise to design rigorous, evidence-based testing approaches

- Develop and document robust APIs for serving and integrating ML models

- Apply software engineering practices as needed (e.g., containerisation, databases, data pipelines) to support scalable delivery

- Work effectively within Agile teams alongside scientists, engineers, and non-technical colleagues

- Stay up to date with emerging research, frameworks, and tools across AI safety and evaluation

REQUIREMENTS

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline

- Strong understanding of machine learning, reinforcement learning, or AI more broadly

- Strong grounding in scientific and statistical methodology

- Strong proficiency in Python for data science and machine learning applications

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and innovative approach

- Excellent written and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences

- Effective communicator who thrives in a collaborative, hybrid team environment

BENEFITS

- Flexible working hours with a hybrid model, blending in-office collaboration in London with the flexibility of remote work

- Private health and cycle to work scheme

- Opportunities for professional development in the rapidly evolving field of AI

- A dynamic and exciting work environment focused on enabling other organisations to deploy AI with confidence

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strongly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Join our journey to help our customers deploy AI that is safe and secure. Propel your career forward with us in London!

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 trustworthin... Know more