Apollo Research
Backend Software Engineer (Research team)
London & San Francisco · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$100k-$200kDetected 228 days ago
PythonAWSLLMsCybersecurityLogisticsResearch
About the role
- Internal tooling for efficiently running and analyzing evaluations.
- For example, a tool that quickly investigates thousands of agentic eval runs in parallel and surfaces interesting information automatically
- Automated evaluation pipelines to minimize the time from getting access to a new model for pre-deployment testing to analyzing the most important results and sharing them
Requirements
- You must have experience writing production-quality python code
- Led the development of a successful software tool or product over an extended period (e.g. 1 year or more)
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- For example, we might be impressed if you have:
Nice to have
- Experience working with LLM agents or LLM evaluations
- Infosecurity / cybersecurity experience
- Experience working with AWS
- Interest in AI Safety
Skills
- LLM agents and MCP tools to automate internal software engineering and research tasks, with sandboxes to prevent major failures
- Telemetry API and instrumentation of our existing tools, allowing us to monitor usage and improve reliability
Compensation
- 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 budge
- Salary: 100k - 200k GBP (~135k - 270k USD)
Benefits
- This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
- Flexible work hours and schedule
- Unlimited vacation
- Unlimited sick leave
- Up to 6 months of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- Retirement savings with competitive employer matching (e.g. 401(k) for US employees)
Company info
- Application deadline: We are conducting interviews actively and aim to fill this role as soon as we find someone suitable.
- The SWE team currently consists of Rusheb Shah, Andrei Matveiakin, Alex Kedrik, and Glen Rodgers.
- Beyond the SWE team, you will closely interact with the research scientists and engineers as the primary user group of your tools.
- You can find our full team here.
- Worked your way up in a large organisation, repeatedly gaining more responsibility and influencing a large part of the codebase
Equal opportunity
- Equality Statement: Apollo Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor visas in both the UK and US.
- Sponsorship isn't guaranteed for every role or candidate, but if we make you an offer, we'll work with you to find the right visa route
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