Misuse Red Team - Research Engineer/Research Scientist

How they work

• 10 (the Prime Minister's office), and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.
• Life & family
• Modern central London office, or where applicable, option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol.
• Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment.
• Internal Fraud Database The Internal Fraud function of the Fraud, Error, Debt and Grants Function at the Cabinet Office processes details of civil servants who have been dismissed for committing internal fraud, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned.
• The Cabinet Office receives the details from participating government organisations of civil servants who have been dismissed, or who would have been dismissed had they not resigned, for internal fraud.
• The Cabinet Office then processes this data and discloses a limited dataset back to DLUHC as a participating government organisations.

Eligibility

Additionally, there is a strong preference for eligibility for counter-terrorist check (CTC) clearance.

How to apply

• The team is currently led by Eric Winsor and Xander Davies. You’ll work with incredible technical staff across AISI, including alumni from Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, and top universities. You may also collaborate with external teams from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gray Swan.
• We are open to hires at junior, senior, staff and principal research scientist levels.
• The deadline for applying to this role is 30th September 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth.
• *These benefits apply to direct employees.
• DLUHC then carry out the pre employment checks so as to detect instances where known fraudsters are attempting to reapply for roles in the civil service.
• As such we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the standard nationality requirements (opens in a new window).