The Central Bank of Ireland serves the public interest by safeguarding monetary and financial stability and by working to ensure that the financial system operates in the best interests of consumers and the wider economy.
Are you interested in applying your analytical skills so that the use of AI has a positive societal impact?
Would you like to gain hands-on experience contributing to how AI can be evaluated so that its potential benefits can be realised safely within the Irish financial system?
We are seeking curious and public-interest focused professionals to join our teams to develop further our approaches for evaluating AI system risks.
Responsibilities
Working with colleagues across the Bank to develop and maintain the Central Bank's AI Risk Assessment approach.
Implementing AI evaluation tools, data science, and other applied AI methods to aid risk assessment, support firm/sector-specific projects, and applying statistical methods and experimental design to AI evaluations.
Supporting the team in analytical and methodological rigor, while creatively contributing to the design of scalable AI evaluation approaches that can be applied across the financial sector.
Providing technical understanding of statistical/machine learning, generative/agentic AI and supporting the assessment and testing of AI systems and supervisory reviews.
Working collaboratively within flexible project teams/business areas and with supervisors to achieve the Bank's supervisory outcomes.
Essential Requirements
A minimum of a third-level honours degree in AI, Data / Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Economics, Psychology, or Mathematics.
An understanding of or interest in AI safety and the emerging discipline of AI evaluation science.
Good understanding of or experience in building and evaluating risks in machine learning / generative AI-based models/systems.
Strong Python/ML stack or equivalent technical understanding.
Good ability to communicate complex technical issues for technical and supervisory audiences.
Acting professionally, ethically, and with integrity.
Preferred Requirements
Some experience using evaluation frameworks or agent evaluation harnesses or willingness to learn by doing.
Conference presentations/publications, projects, or open-source contributions that illustrate role-relevant capabilities and transferrable skills.
Familiarity with frontier AI models and open-weight/open-source models, including text and multi-modal models.
The Central Bank of Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.
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