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Senior Research Scientist, AI for Cybersecurity

NVIDIA· Research Staff Member
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US, MA, Westford, US, CA, Santa Clara$224k - $356.5kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior Scientist to lead research on advancing AI models and agents for cybersecurity, applying them to security problems, and translating foundational advances into practical capabilities in collaboration with research, product, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Define a high-impact research agenda and lead projects that advance AI models and agents for cybersecurity and apply them to important security problems.
  • Improve model and agent capabilities for security reasoning, code and system understanding, planning, tool use, memory, long-horizon investigation, and collaboration with human defenders through advances in architectures, data, training, post-training, and evaluation.
  • Develop AI-powered capabilities for vulnerability discovery, secure development, threat detection, malware analysis, incident investigation, security validation, and automated defense that are robust to adversarial manipulation, uncertainty, distribution shift, and incomplete or noisy operational data.
  • Build and evaluate prototypes in realistic environments, measuring detection quality, false positives, time to insight, analyst effectiveness, security risk, and operational scalability.
  • Collaborate across AI, security, research, engineering, and product teams; publish original research; mentor researchers and interns; and help translate advances into deployed capabilities.

Qualifications

  • A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant experience with an established record of research excellence through influential publications, open-source systems, patents, technology transfer, or substantial research collaborations.
  • Deep expertise in areas such as agentic AI, model training, reasoning and tool use, machine learning for security, vulnerability research, program analysis, software security, intrusion detection, malware analysis, or security operations.
  • Experience defining and leading ambiguous, multi-disciplinary research projects and providing technical mentorship.
  • Strong experimental and prototyping skills; Python and relevant AI/ML frameworks, including experience training, adapting, or evaluating models or agents; experience with systems software, security tooling, or large-scale data systems.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to work effectively with both AI researchers and security practitioners.

Skills

Required:Ph.D. in a relevant field or equivalent experienceResearch leadership and project managementAgentic AI / AI for cybersecurityPython and AI/ML frameworksCommunication
Nice to have:Systems software / security tooling / large-scale data systems

Benefits

  • equity
  • benefits (see company benefits page)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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