{"id":2434481,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ai-security-institute-technical-programme-manager-model-transparency","title":"Technical Programme Manager - Model Transparency","company":{"id":40202,"name":"AI Security Institute","domain":"aisi.gov.uk","url":"https://alion.io/company/ai-security-institute","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":63000,"max_usd":144000,"period":"year","method":"role_country_seniority_unknown","sample_n":646},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Anthropic","optional":false},{"name":"Chain-of-Thought","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"Slack","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-13T07:40:39Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-13","last_verified_at":"2026-10-14T06:41:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"About the AI Security Institute\nThe 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.\nWe’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.\nThe deadline for applying to this role is Sunday 1st November, end of day, anywhere on Earth.\nAbout the role\nAISI aims to turn progress on important research questions in AI security into real insight and impact for our partners and the public. This requires running research programmes that actually deliver, and making these programmes rigorous and fast is its own discipline. The AI Security Institute is hiring a Technical Programme Manager for our Model Transparency team to do exactly this. \nOver the next twelve months, this team will need to move faster, deliver more complex research programmes and evaluations, and engage more deeply with partners in major AI labs and across government than ever before. \nTechnical Programme Managers make this work possible. You will work directly with the team's researchers and engineers to turn vast research questions into tractable programmes. You will be held responsible for ensuring our research stands up to rigorous empirical standards to inform policy, recommending which technical work needs to happen, and untangling knotty dependencies across workstreams. \nAbout the team\nThe ability to effectively evaluate and monitor AI systems will grow in importance as models become more capable, autonomous, and integrated into society. If models can detect and game evaluations, obscure their reasoning, or behave differently under observation, the safety claims that governments and developers rely on become unreliable.Understanding and addressing these risks is essential to ensuring that oversight of advanced AI systems keeps pace with their capabilities.\nThe Model Transparency team is a research team within AISI focused on ensuring that evaluations, assessments, and monitoring of frontier AI systems remain reliable as models become less transparent. We research how and why oversight is declining - through phenomena such as evaluation awareness, unfaithful chain-of-thought reasoning, and changes in model architectures - and develop methods (including white and black box methods) to detect, measure, and mitigate potential issues. We share our findings with frontier AI companies (including Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind), UK government officials, and allied governments, and publicly to inform their deployment, research, and policy decisions. We also work directly with safety teams at frontier labs, contributing to safety case reviews and helping improve their alignment evaluation methodology.\nOur recent work includes the loss of oversight report, auditing games for sandbagging, reproducing natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking, and identifying open-weight language models that game propensity evaluations.\nWhat you will own\nProgramme architecture. You will work directly with your team's technical staff to set the scope of projects: refining what questions we're actually trying to answer, what the milestones and success criteria are for technical work, and how to sequence dependencies, resource, and time across the team. You will turn \"we should probably look into X\" into a tractable plan with clear deliverables, without imposing process that gets in the team's way. You must be comfortable with ambiguity: you will be immersed in a fast-moving environment and won’t always have a settled roadmap. . \nDelivery tracking and unblocking. You will spot and solve problems so that the team's delivery continually improves, and own tracking progress to create visibility and establish control without overhead. You will surface technical blockers before they become crises, intervene directly to resolve them, and know exactly when and to whom to escalate. The goal is the team spending their time on the work, not logistics. \nCross-government technical engagement. You will speak with government partners on a technical level and be a trusted representative and ambassador for good relationships with them. \nTeam operations and pace. You will determine the operational rhythm that lets a small, high-performing team inside government move at the speed of billion-dollar AI companies. You will ensure the team has what it needs to deliver and be unfussy about doing whatever needs to be done to unblock things and prevent them from falling through the cracks. \nRole Requirements\nA track record working with technical colleagues. You have delivered technical programmes in a similarly high-ambiguity environment. You know how to scope and structure open-ended goals (not just deliver against a pre-defined plan). You have earned the trust of technical teams by understanding their work deeply enough to provide critical challenge and engage beyond process. \nComfort operating at the frontier of AI. You do not need to be a machine learning researcher, but you need to be fluent enough in frontier AI to operate in constant conversation with technical staff about our work, strategy, and research taste; you should have your own taste on what's hard, what's speculative, what's blocked, and what \"good\" looks like for a given experiment or evaluation. \nHigh agency and ownership. You take responsibility for outcomes, not activities. When something is stuck, you pick up the phone. You do not wait for someone else to escalate. \nCredibility with technical teams. Researchers trust you because you understand their work, respect their constraints, and demonstrably make their lives easier. You influence through competence and service, not authority or process. \nStrong prioritisation under pressure. You can identify what actually matters on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly level and focus the team's energy. You have the judgement to recognise work that isn't landing and the confidence to recommend that it stop. \nDiscretion and judgement in a sensitive domain. You understand that the work we do often carries sensitivity. \nStrong candidates may also have:\nExisting security clearances. \nFluency in, or eagerness to adopt,modern productivity tools (coding agents, Linear, Slack) and willingness to use AI tools as part of daily work. \nSelection process \nApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. \n Application - CV and a short cover note (max 500 words) explaining what draws you to this role and what you would bring. Please also indicate which team you would prefer to join. \nScreening interview - Lightweight conversation on trajectory, motivation and fit. \nWork test - A take-home exercise designed to test programme management judgement in context. You will receive this after the screening interview. \nTechnical interview - Discussion of your work test. \nBehavioural interview - Deeper dive on stakeholder management, prioritisation and team dynamics. \n Senior leadership interview (30 min) - Final conversation with AISI senior leadership. \nSecurity Clearance\nAppointment is conditional on successfully completing UK Government SC clearance. Prior clearance is not required-we will sponsor and support you. You should normally have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years. More detail on clearance eligibility can be found on the UK Government website: National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK. \nWhat We Offer \nImpact you couldn't have anywhere else \nIncredibly talented, mission-driven and supportive colleagues. \nDirect influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally. \nWork with the Prime Minister’s AI Advisor and leading AI companies. \nOpportunity to shape the first & best-resourced public-interest research team focused on AI security. \nResources & access \nPre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute. \nExtensive operational support so you can focus on research and ship quickly. \nWork with experts across national security, policy, AI research and adjacent sciences. \nGrowth & autonomy \nIf you’re talented and driven, you’ll own important problems early. \n5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development, and funding for conferences and external collaborations. \nFreedom to pursue research bets without product pressure. \nOpportunities to publish and collaborate externally. \nLife & family* \nModern central London office, or where applicable, option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol. \nHybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment. \nAt least 25 days’ annual leave, 8 public holidays, extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering. \nGenerous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time). \nOn top of your salary, we contribute 28.97% of your base salary to your pension. \nDiscounts and benefits for cycling to work, donations and retail/gyms. \n\n*These benefits apply to direct employees. Benefits may differ for individuals joining through other employment arrangements such as secondments. \nSalary\nAnnual salary is benchmarked to role scope and relevant experience. Most offers land between £65,000 and £145,000 made up of a base salary plus a technical allowance (take-home salary = base + technical allowance). An additional 28.97% employer pension contribution is paid on the base salary. \nThis role sits outside of the DDaT pay framework given the scope of this role requires in depth technical expertise in frontier AI safety, robustness and advanced AI architectures. \nThe full range of salaries are available below: \n Level 3: £65,000-£75,000 (Base £40,850 + Technical Allowance £24,150-£34,150)\n Level 4: £85,000-£95,000 (Base £48,540 + Technical Allowance £36,460-£46,460)\n Level 5: £105,000-£115,000 (Base £63,165 + Technical Allowance £41,835-£51,835)\n Level 6: £125,000-£135,000 (Base £76,475 + Technical Allowance £48,525-£58,525)\n Level 7: £145,000 (Base £76,475 + Technical Allowance £68,525)\nAdditional Information\nUse of AI in Applications\nArtificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.\nUse of AI tools in recruitment \nWe may use AI tools to help our hiring teams review applications, for example by summarising application materials and helping us prioritise applications against the published criteria. People make every decision. AI tools do not decide the outcome of any application. Every decision is made by a member of our hiring team, and we do not make solely automated decisions about candidates. We only use the information you provide in your application. We do not use AI tools to collect information about you from other sources, including the internet. These tools are approved for use within AISI and operate in our secure environment. We process this information in line with our wider recruitment retention policy. You can ask how AI was used in relation to your application, request a human review, or object to AI being used, by contacting the hiring manager. 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