Senior AI Security Researcher

We are seeking a Senior AI Security Researcher to join our team at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in Pittsburgh, PA. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing state-of-the-art approaches for analyzing the robustness of AI systems, identifying vulnerabilities, and reverse engineering malicious code. The role involves collaborating with elite AI and cybersecurity professionals, university faculty, and government representatives to build new methodologies and technologies that will influence national AI security strategy.

Requirements

• Develop state of the art approaches for analyzing robustness of AI systems
• Apply these approaches to understanding vulnerabilities in AI systems and how attackers adapt their tradecraft to exploit those vulnerabilities
• Reverse engineer malicious code in support of high-impact customers, design and develop new analysis methods and tools, work to identify and address emerging and complex threats to AI systems and effectively participate in the broader security community
• Study and influence the AI security and vulnerability disclosure ecosystems
• Evaluate the effectiveness of tools, techniques and processes developed by industry and the AI security research community
• Uncover and shape some of the fundamental assumptions underlying current best practice in AI security
• Develop thought models, tools and data sets that can be used to characterize the threats to, and vulnerabilities in, AI systems, and publish those results
• Identify opportunities to apply AI to improve existing cybersecurity research

Benefits

• 8% monthly contribution for retirement
• Tuition benefits to CMU and other institutions for you and your dependent children
• Flexible work arrangements
• Paid parental and military leave
• Annual professional development opportunities
• Relocation assistance