Research Fellow

Criminal convictions

As you have declared an unspent criminal conviction your Unitemps branch will contact you to gather further details later in the application process.

Details

Reference
1121342

Branch
University of Warwick

Start date
15/11/2026

Duration
Other - See Job

Hours and days
HOURS: 100 in total

Dress code
Smart Casual

Pay

Rate of pay
£19.14

Holiday rate
£2.31

Description

Role

This is to assist Dr Caspar Kaiser in research tasks relating his funded project Measuring Digital Minds.

Duties and responsibilities

• Literature search
• Coding-up black-box and white-box experiments on closed- and open-weight models in Python using OpenRouter, Warwick HPC, and RunPod.

Skills and experience

1. Familiarity and experience with coding agents, statistical methods, and Python.
2. Familiarity and experience with the huggingface transformers library is a plus.
3. Familiarity and experience with current digital minds research, work on technical AI alignment, or related fields is a plus
4. Familiarity with experimental designs in Psychology and Economics.

Location
Remote - all work must be completed in the UK

Additional information

• Predicted interview date: 10 November 26
• Start and end date: 15 November 26 until 15 February 27
• Deadline to apply: Sunday 01 November 26

Please provide a CV and cover letter with your application.

Please note upon applying for this role you are consenting to your contact details being shared directly with the hiring manager.

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