THE OPPORTUNITY
Join our new AGI safety product team and help transform complex AI research into practical tools that reduce risks from AI. As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll work closely with our CEO (also Head of Product), other product engineers and Evals team software engineers to build tools that make AI agent safety accessible at scale for our customers. We are building products that monitor AI coding agents for safety and security failures. You will join a small team and will have significant ability to shape the team & tech, and have the ability to earn responsibility quickly.
You will like this opportunity if you care about building products that genuinely make AI agents safer and you thrive in high-paced environments and enjoy closely working with researchers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Development
- Collaborate with the team lead to refine tool requirements, and translate them into technical specifications and architectures
- Design, develop, and maintain features across the full stack, from responsive front-end interfaces (e.g. using React) to scalable backend services in Python
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable code that meets our high standards for security and performance; talk to users to understand their use-cases and needs
Back-End Development
- Design and implement scalable backend services that can process and analyze large volumes of AI agent logs
- Implement RESTful APIs and data processing pipelines for AI agent logs
- Implement secure API endpoints that allow customers to integrate our tools into their workflows
- Build monitoring and logging systems to ensure reliability and performance
Front-End Development
- Build intuitive user interfaces that help customers understand and act on AI agent safety & security evaluations
- Develop interactive data visualizations that effectively communicate complex AI behaviors, e.g. hour-long coding agent trajectories
- Ensure responsive design and cross-browser compatibility for users
- Implement authentication, authorization, and other security measures to protect sensitive customer data
Collaboration & Communication
- Work side-by-side with our researchers and software engineers. We are “our own customer” since our researchers use our products
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality
- Document technical decisions and implementations to facilitate knowledge sharing
- Contribute to technical discussions about architecture, technology choices, and implementation approaches
- Help the product team grow by sharing your own knowledge, offer thoughtful feedback and participate in trade-off discussions
Qualifications
- 3+ years experience as a Full Stack Engineer building production applications
- Strong proficiency in front-end development, e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript or React
- Python experience for backend development with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and working with databases, e.g. using SQL
- Familiarity with cloud services and containerization technologies, e.g. Docker, AWS, Google Cloud
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn new technologies quickly
Bonus
- Has taken a product from 0 to 1, from conception to production
- Has been responsible for the development of a product, e.g. leading engineer
- Familiarity with ML/AI concepts or developer tools for AI applications
- Experience with evaluation frameworks for AI systems
- Previous work on developer tools or APIs, e.g. B2B SaaS tools
- Experience building data streaming, data processing or observability products
- Experience building software for security use cases
Note: We encourage candidates from a variety of backgrounds to apply. Excellent candidates can come from diverse experiences and we are excited to give opportunities to shine.
Responsibilities & Impact
- Develop and scale at least one monitoring product. We have an MVP of our AI agent safety & security monitoring product and now want to scale it further.
- Build scalable, production-ready infrastructure for processing and analyzing AI agent trajectories, ensuring our systems can handle high throughput in a secure and stable manner.
- Create intuitive visualizations and dashboards that translate complex AI safety metrics into actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- AI agent real-time monitoring system: monitor deployed agents, cover multiple failure modes, and alert developers and security teams as needed.
- This role offers a market-competitive salary, equity, and benefits.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary: 100k – 180k GBP (~135k – 245k USD)
- Flexible work hours and schedule
- Unlimited vacation and unlimited sick leave
- Up to 6 months of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- Retirement savings with competitive employer matching
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays
- Paid work trips and conference attendance
- A yearly $1,000 professional development budget
- Time Allocation: Full-time
- Location: In-person role (London or San Francisco); flexible hours and WFH options
- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas in both the UK and US; sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role or candidate, but we will work with you to find the right visa route if we make you an offer
ABOUT THE TEAM
The product team is a new group. You will work closely with Marius Hobbhahn (CEO), Jeremy Neiman (product engineer) and Zak Walters (product engineer) on the monitoring team. You’ll also work with SWEs and researchers to translate internal tools into externally usable products.
ABOUT APOLLO
The rapid rise in AI capabilities offers opportunities but also risks. At Apollo Research, we focus on risks from Loss of Control and devious AI behaviours. We develop tools to detect, evaluate, and mitigate these risks, and work with frontier AI companies to test and improve systems before deployment.
We are developing tools and products to prevent harms from AI systems, with a focus on coding agent safety.
We strive for a culture of truth-seeking, goal-orientation, constructive feedback, and a friendly, helpful environment. More details about working at Apollo can be found here.
Equality Statement
Apollo Research is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing equal opportunities to all regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
HOW TO APPLY
Please complete the application form with your CV. A cover letter is not required. You may also share links to relevant work samples.
Interviews & Privacy
Our multi-stage process includes a screening interview, a take-home test, 3 technical interviews, and a final interview with the CEO. There are no leetcode-style general coding interviews. We recommend reviewing the evaluation framework and building simple monitors to gain familiarity.
Your Privacy and Fairness in Our Recruitment Process: We protect your data and use human-centered, fair recruitment practices. For questions about data processing or to report concerns, contact us at info@apolloresearch.ai.
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