Apollo Research

Apollo Research

Full-stack Software Engineer (Research team)

London & San Francisco · Full-time

H1B sponsorship available$100k-$200kDetected 228 days ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentLLMsLogisticsResearch

About the role

  • 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.
  • The rapid rise in AI capabilities offer tremendous opportunities, but also present significant risks.

Requirements

  • You must have experience writing production-quality Python and React code
  • Ability to view and analyse conversations with coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) in addition to evaluation transcripts
  • 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
  • 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 budget
  • 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

  • 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
  • Experience designing rich and intuitive UIs, especially for power usersDirect work with researchers or customers

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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