Research Scientist, AI Safety and Security
RemoteFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Research scientist role focused on proactive threat mitigation, adversarial machine learning, and agentic security within trustworthy AI. Develop foundational ML techniques for model robustness, continual learning, interpretability, and evaluation benchmarks; collaborate with regional hubs, product teams, and academia to translate research into production solutions.
Responsibilities
- Drive foundational machine learning research in model robustness, continual learning, interpretability, and multiobjective optimization to advance trustworthy AI.
- Design and develop rigorous evaluation protocols, scenario-based benchmarks, and stress-testing methodologies to assess frontier AI capabilities and multi-agent consensus.
- Curate advanced datasets and conduct fine-tuning or optimization experiments to enhance model resilience against emerging threats and ensure adherence to safety constraints.
- Collaborate extensively with regional engineering hubs, core product teams, and academic partners to transition theoretical proofs-of-concept into robust production solutions.
- Publish groundbreaking research in machine learning venues and actively participate in academic and industry research communities.
Qualifications
- PhD degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience in machine learning, adversarial machine learning or evaluating frontier AI systems, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning, ML interpretability, adversarial robustness, ML safety, generative models, agentic AI, multi-objective optimization.
- One or more scientific publication submissions for conferences, journals, or public repositories (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR).
Skills
Required:Machine learning foundationsAdversarial machine learningEvaluation protocols and benchmarksCollaboration with academia and partners
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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