AI Security Researcher

The CERT Division of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is seeking applicants for the AI Security Researcher role, where you'll collaborate to deliver high-quality results in the emerging area of AI security. You'll join a group of security experts focused on advancing the state of the art in AI security at a national and global scale.

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
• 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
• Publish those results

Benefits

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