Technical Writer, Frontier AI Best Practice
Job description
A role in AISI's Technical Standards and Best Practice team turning technical AI safety expertise into authoritative best-practice documents and public explainers for frontier AI developers, policymakers and the public.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · London
- Pay
- GBP 65,000 – 145,000 / year
- Apply before
- November 29, 2026
What you'll do
- Work with researchers to decide what form each piece of best practice should take, and how it should be structured
- Own delivery of best-practice documents, co-drafting by managing researchers' technical input and editing to ensure each practice is coherent, specific, testable and technically accurate
- Set out the technical rationale for each practice, drawing on research findings, threat models and evaluation results
- Develop a consistent style, templates and terminology for AISI best practice documents, and run review rounds with internal and external experts
- Write public explainers and technical blog posts setting out the reasoning behind AISI's best practice
- Manage multi-stakeholder drafting processes, engaging with feedback from industry, wider government and expert third parties
- Adapt material for different audiences, from technical researchers to non-technical policy readers, working with AISI's communications team
- Report to the Head of Technical Standards and Best Practice
What we're looking for
- Understand nuanced technical AI safety work well enough to explain its claims and limitations accurately
- Write precise, structured documents that set out what organisations should do and why
- Explain the same technical topics clearly and engagingly to non-technical readers
- Able to spend at least 4 days per week working with us
Nice to have
- Written or co-written AI research papers, such as preprints on arXiv
- Written in-depth technical communication on AI working directly with researchers, such as AI company blog posts or technical reports
- Written technical guidance, standards or documentation in a complex field
- Written for public or policy audiences on technical topics
- Familiarity with one or more priority areas: monitorability, safety cases and risk reports, or AI research automation
- Extensive experience communicating AI security concepts for policy audiences
- Experience running the writing of a multi-author document: gathering input from several experts, resolving conflicting feedback and getting it to publication
- Familiarity with how frontier AI developers, evaluators or standards bodies work
- Eligibility for Security Check (SC) clearance
Your team
Technical Standards and Best Practice
A new, growing cross-AISI team that identifies what best practice is needed to manage the most serious risks from frontier AI development and leverages AISI's position to get it adopted, collaborating with researchers and engineers across AISI's research teams as well as Communications, International and Strategy.
Benefits
Modern central London office, or where applicable, option to work in similar government offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Salford or Bristol
Generous paid parental leave (36 weeks of UK statutory leave shared between parents + 3 extra paid weeks + option for additional unpaid time)
- Direct influence on how frontier AI is governed and deployed globally
- Work with the Prime Minister's AI Advisor and leading AI companies
- Pre-release access to multiple frontier models and ample compute
- Extensive operational support so you can focus on research and ship quickly
- 5 days off and annual stipends for learning and development, and funding for conferences and external collaborations
- Hybrid working, flexibility for occasional remote work abroad and stipends for work-from-home equipment
- At least 25 days' annual leave, 8 public holidays, extra team-wide breaks and 3 days off for volunteering
- 28.97% employer pension contribution on base salary
- Discounts and benefits for cycling to work, donations and retail/gyms
How to get hired
- 1Initial interview
- 2Technical take home test
- 3Second interview and review of take home test
- 4Third interview
- 5Final interview with members of the senior team
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About AI Security Institute
The world's largest and best-funded team dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action
A research institute within the UK government, in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10, working with frontier developers and governments globally.
Mission
Understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action
Key facts
- Government research institute
- Roughly 10 technical and research teams
- Has evaluated more than 55 frontier models before release
- Published research on topics such as safety cases, monitorability and control
- Built Inspect, now the standard framework for leading third-party evaluators
- Coordinates the International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science, a group of 10 AI security institutes and equivalents
- Published 'Towards technical best practice for frontier AI development' in October 2026