Research Engineer – AI Risk

Full Time Fixed Term (12 Months)

You will join our creative and innovative team at the IT Innovation Centre working to advance methods, tools and technologies for helping ensure the safety, security and trustworthiness of AI in healthcare, manufacturing, environment sciences and beyond. 

Your experience of knowledge-based systems engineering will contribute to our research programme pioneering approaches to risk management of socio-technical-physical systems considering emerging governance and AI paradigms.

You will work with regulators, industry and citizens to understand future systems and advance modelling and simulation methods and applications. Your work will mainly contribute to a knowledge-based risk analysis tool Spyderisk via extensions to its knowledge base towards the domain of Artificial Intelligence and its risks.

If you are passionate about knowledge identification, extraction and interpretation, this position will certainly suit you.

There is considerable potential for developing your expertise and career, e.g. participation in open source communities, partnerships with public sector (e.g. NHS), academia and industry both in the UK and EU-wide, pursuit of new research directions, projects and publications.

To be successful it is essential you have the following:

• PhD or equivalent experience in computer science or software engineering or related discipline (e.g. physics/maths).
• Detailed understanding of AI types, tools, methods and risks.
• Experience of knowledge modelling.
• Experience of one or more programming language, and software engineering practices.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.

The following would be advantageous.

• Knowledge of risk assessment / management (e.g., ISO 27000 series)
• Experience of knowledge gathering, via methods such as literature review, consultation, surveys, etc.

We offer some fantastic benefits including 44 days leave per year (inclusive of public holidays and University closure days), options for flexible and remote working in the UK (e.g. no need to relocate to Southampton), excellent family leave arrangements, access to onsite childcare facilities and our comprehensive benefits package also includes a contributory pension scheme (with a 14.5% employer contribution), subsidised health and fitness facilities, a cycle-to-work scheme, and a range of discounts. 

The University of Southampton is in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 10 of the UK’s research-intensive universities. The University of Southampton is committed to sustainability and being a globally responsible university and has recently been awarded the Platinum EcoAward.  Our vision is to embed the principles of sustainability into all aspects of our individual and collective work, integrating sustainable development into our business planning, policy-making, and professional activities.  This commits all of our staff and students to take responsibility for managing their activities to minimise harm to the environment, whether this through switching off non-essential electrical equipment or using the recycling facilities.

This is a full-time post for a period of 12 months, renewable subject to funding.

We wish the post to start as soon as possible.

*Please note: Upon appointment you will have the job title Research Engineer

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