Senior AI Security Researcher

We are seeking a Senior AI Security Researcher to join our team at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cybersecurity and/or AI, and be excited about pioneering new research areas that will impact academia, industry, and national security.

Requirements

• Develop state-of-the-art approaches for analyzing the 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous retirement savings program with employer contributions
• Tuition benefits to CMU and other institutions for employees and their dependent children
• Paid parental and military leave
• Annual professional development opportunities
• Relocation assistance
• Free Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus pass
• Access to a Family Concierge Team to help navigate childcare needs
• Fitness center access