Infrastructure Engineer

Centre for Long-Term Resilience

📍 Remote　🕔 Part Time
💰 £700–800 GBP /day　⏳ 03/08/2026

We require an infrastructure engineer to realise our ambitious vision for the Observatory. You would overhaul the existing data pipeline, classification system, and monitoring dashboard. And you would scale the system with additional and larger data sources and improved data collection methods.

This is a technical development role focused on maintaining the Observatory's core infrastructure (data collection pipelines, LLM-based classification systems, and a web-based monitoring dashboard) and extending it to cover additional data sources, longer collection windows, and new risk areas. You'll work with CLTR's AI Unit to scope expansions and ensure the platform reliably supports world-leading monitoring work.

What you'll do:

• Refine and maintain our Python data pipelines for collecting and processing social media data (X, Reddit, and potentially others)

• Build pipelines for scraping and analysing chatbot share links

• Implement GDPR compliant media artifact storage so evidence is retained even if source platforms delete originals

• Maintain and refine LLM-based classification systems, including prompt engineering and evaluation frameworks

• Build and maintain the access layer for external parties – warehouse schema, the monitoring/review dashboard, self-service analytics, exportable datasets and, over time, an API

• Deploy and maintain cloud-based services with automated/scheduled operations

• Implement robust error handling, logging, and data validation throughout the system

Requirements

Essential

• Strong Python skills for data processing and ML/LLM workflows

• Experience interfacing with APIs (social media platforms, LLMs, cloud storage) and data scraping

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with experience of working effectively with non-technical colleagues

• Web development skills (dashboard building, authentication, WSGI deployment)

• Strong practices around testing, error handling, and version control (Git)

Desirable

• Experience with prompt engineering and LLM evaluation

• Familiarity with and interest in AI safety

• Understanding of AI risks and behaviours relevant to the project (e.g. loss of control, scheming)

• Experience with OSINT methodologies or social media data analysis

We are particularly interested in hearing from people who…

• Have built infrastructure or software in industry or big tech and want to bring those skills to AI safety – bonus if you've done that already

• If you have spent time building and scaling real systems, and you care about the loss-of-control problem but don't want a research role, this could be a great fit

• You don't need a research background – we're looking for strong builders who want to help take the Observatory to the next level

How to Apply

Email beth@longtermresilience.org by 9am, Monday 3rd of August with the following items:

1. Your CV

2. A link to your most relevant GitHub repository — ideally something that gives us a sense of how you build and scale real systems. If your strongest work is private or confidential, then please include a short description of what you built, your role in it, and the technical choices you made instead.

3. A short note (~250–300 words) on what draws you to this work — we're interested in your motivation and how you communicate.