Jobs in Cardiff

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Engineering Manager - dominAI

The Engineering Manager for the dominAI team will lead a multidisciplinary engineering group, focusing on people management, delivery, and technical direction. Key responsibilities include setting clear expectations, removing blockers, and partnering with the Product Manager to align on priorities and technical investments. The role involves hands-on coding, hiring, and shaping the team's environment and processes.

Hadean London

Hybrid Permanent Clearance Required

Senior Software Engineer

Builds LLM-powered applications and AI agents on a .NET and Azure stack for a public-sector client, combining hands-on C# development with practical AI work such as Azure OpenAI, RAG and agent orchestration. The role is primarily remote, with roughly two to three days per month on site in Cardiff, and requires eligibility for SC clearance.

F5 Cardiff £70,000 – £100,000 pa

Remote Clearance Required

Expression of Interest - Core Technology Team

Expression of interest for engineers at all levels to join a government team building shared tooling and infrastructure for frontier AI security research. Work spans open-source Inspect plugins, large-scale evaluation systems, hosting open-weights models, secure model-access proxies, and custom research infrastructure.

AI Security Institute London £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Hybrid

Expression of Interest- Cyber & Autonomous Systems Team

Evaluates frontier and open-weight AI models for cybersecurity, autonomy and AI R&D capabilities, building realistic cyber ranges and CTF suites, running pre-deployment testing and validating novel model behaviours. Works alongside engineers and researchers with high autonomy, collaborating with UK government, frontier labs and NCSC.

AI Security Institute London £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Hybrid

Expression of Interest - Research Director

Expression of interest for a Research Director role at the AI Security Institute, scoped at Level 7, focused on understanding advanced AI risks and translating that into government action. The position involves shaping public-interest research on frontier AI safety, with pre-release access to frontier models, ample compute, and collaboration with national security, policy and AI research experts.

AI Security Institute London £145,000 pa

Hybrid Clearance Required

Expression of Interest- Chem Bio

Open expression of interest for research engineers and scientists to join a team assessing chemical and biological risks from frontier AI. Work spans capability elicitation, model evaluations, benchmarking, threat modelling and safeguards, drawing on machine learning, life sciences, chemistry and biosecurity expertise alongside government and industry partners.

AI Security Institute London £65,000 – £145,000 pa

Hybrid Clearance Required

Senior Software Engineer, Chem-Bio

Senior individual contributor building and owning shared platform, tooling and infrastructure for a research team, including LLM-based agent systems, evaluation frameworks and supporting infrastructure. Works closely with interdisciplinary researchers to translate varied needs into maintainable Python systems, with strong engineering discipline around testing, documentation and observability. Also contributes to architectural decisions, engineering standards and mentoring through code review and knowledge sharing.

AI Security Institute London

Hybrid