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Senior AI Security Engineer
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Department Summary:
MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI Department within the Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy Innovation Center consists of a diverse team united by a passion and a sense of urgency to harness trustworthy and assured artificial intelligence (AI) to help solve problems in the public interest. The Trustworthy & Secure AI (TSAI) Department supports our sponsors' missions by delivering capabilities for securing and increasing trust in AI-enabled systems, including data driven AI risk awareness and mitigation, AI red teaming, and trusted tools and techniques for applying AI in high consequence environments. The TSAI Department works across government, industry, and academia to provide, assess, and shape trustworthy and secure AI systems to address complex mission needs for our sponsors. Our work provides opportunities to address real-world challenges in the rapidly developing field of AI assurance, and to research and prototype new methods to address mission needs. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration of AI and large language models (LLMs). We are looking for expertise in AI and machine learning (ML), particularly the development, training, and use of LLMs.
Roles & Responsibilities:
The position involves researching, developing, evaluating, and integrating AI capabilities, with a particular focus on security and trust, especially for LLMs. Specific responsibilities will include:
- Work in and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams to develop and implement AI/ML solutions, including capabilities that leverage LLM technology
- Analyze AI use cases and recommend secure and trustworthy solutions to sponsors
- Prototype AI and/or LLM-based tools to meet operational needs
- Evaluate technology solutions in the context of mission data and workflow needs, and provide actionable recommendations
- Convey complex ideas to non-technical audiences through briefings and/or white papers
- Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex AI security problems for our sponsors
Basic Qualifications:
- Typically requires:
- A minimum of 5 years of related experience in Artificial Intelligence with a Bachelor’s degree;
- Or 3 years and a Master’s degree;
- Or a PhD in a branch of Artificial Intelligence who can immediately contribute to this job step;
- Or equivalent combination of AI-related education and work experience in a branch of artificial intelligence such as generative AI, AI assurance, computational linguistics, machine sensing and perception, machine learning, AI-ready data, decision support, cognitive science, and intelligent systems.
- Demonstrated recent experience with large language models
- Demonstrated advanced skills with Python and the standard ML stack (Tensorflow/Torch, NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
- Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks/platforms, and systems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences
- Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance
- This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active IC or DOD TS/SCI security clearance
- Advanced degree with AI-related research
- Track-record of successful deployment of AI/ML systems or components that have been used by customers or stakeholders outside of a lab/experimental setting
- 5+ years of impactful work experience in AI-related fields
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
NoneThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
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