General Application — Inherent (London)

At Inherent, we are on a mission to build AI that recursively self-improves to discover new knowledge. Scientific advances are the backbone of our economic, technological and societal prosperity, but ideas are getting harder to find and breakthroughs are becoming more expensive. We are building a new frontier lab dedicated to developing AI that explores “unknown unknowns” to uncover paradigm-shifting research contributions. Science is a social endeavour, and so our mission is inextricably a human-machine teaming problem. We’re starting by reinventing the AI research factory so that our own agents accelerate their own creation.

Inherent is a well-funded, fast-growing neo-lab backed by Tier 1 VCs who believe in our ethical stance. We are a team of operators with backgrounds at frontier labs who have done foundational work in recursive self-improvement, AI Scientists, world modelling, meta-RL and human-machine cooperation. Working in-person every day at our high-intensity London headquarters, we believe that Europe will lead the way in the coming paradigm of AI-enabled science, unlocking human potential across the globe.

About the role

Uncovering talent, just like scientific discovery, is an open-ended process. Therefore, we approach hiring from a position of humility: we know we cannot perfectly anticipate which unique skills, experiences, and enthusiasms will unlock our mission.

If you believe in what we are doing, and are curious and motivated, we would like to hear from you. Please include in your covering letter your rationale for applying, and how you envisage your skills would accelerate Inherent. We welcome applications for both technical and non-technical positions.

Culture

We only select people with low ego, spiky skill profiles, commitment to societal benefit, unusual viewpoints, and a passion for "living in the experiment". We'll win because we're willing to try things that no incumbent would even think to do, let alone action.

We have really good lunch and dinner. Seriously. You've got to try it. We're based in King's Cross, London and believe in the pace and energy of working in person. We’re committed to having the most tasteful, and the weirdest, office of any AI lab: the environment shapes the agents within it.

We know that many of the most creative and talented people have had unusual career paths and backgrounds. Building a team with a diversity of thought is mission-critical, for plurality spurs curiosity, invention and collective experimentation.