Apollo Research - Full-stack Software Engineer (Research team)
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Requirements
• You must have experience writing production-quality Python and React code • We value candidates from diverse backgrounds and recognise that candidates may demonstrate their skills in different ways. For example, we might be impressed if you have: • Led the development of a successful software tool or product over an extended period (e.g. 1 year or more) • Started and built the tech stack for a company, e.g in a start-up • Worked your way up in a large organisation, repeatedly gaining more responsibility and influencing a large part of the codebase • Authored and/or maintained a popular open-source tool or library • Placed in a prestigious programming competition (IOI, ICPC, etc.) • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience • The following would be a bonus: • Experience designing rich and intuitive UIs, especially for power usersDirect work with researchers or customersExperience working with LLM agents or LLM evaluations • Interest in AI Safety • We want to emphasize that people who feel they don’t fulfill all of these characteristics but think they would be a good fit for the position nonetheless are strongly encouraged to apply. We believe that excellent candidates can come from a variety of backgrounds and are excited to give you opportunities to shine. • Start Date: Target of 2-3 months after the first interview • Time Allocation: Full-time • Location: The office is in London, and the right next to the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) offices. This is an in-person role. In rare situations, we may consider partially remote arrangements on a case-by-case basis. • Work Visas: We can sponsor UK visas
Responsibilities
• Balance between moving quickly and creating robust and performant software • Lead the development of major features from ideation to implementation • Support the entire user journey from running the evaluation to finding interesting results to analysing the results to producing reports and papers • Make the software configurable and extensible, so that users can adapt it for their needs • Collaboratively define and shape the software roadmap and priorities • Establish and advocate for good software design practices, codebase health, and coding agent practices • Work closely with researchers to understand what challenges they face • Work closely with the product team to create solutions that satisfies both our researchers and external customers
Benefits
• Salary: 100k - 200k GBP (~135k - 270k USD) • Flexible work hours and schedule • Unlimited vacation • Unlimited sick leave • Lunch, dinner, and snacks are provided for all employees on workdays • Paid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences • A yearly $1,000 (USD) professional development budget
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