Staff ML Engineer (Zürich)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Extend the scope of a detector to support multiple languages without dropping performance on already supported languages
• ▹Increase the scope where defenses perform by 100x (e.g., multi-lingual data, code, etc.)
• ▹Extend modeling and data generation to enable passing additional context (e.g., LLM output, behavioral metadata) to prompt injection detectors
• ▹Red team the model to understand the most pressing vulnerabilities and prioritize data collection and generation to fix them

Requirements

• ▹At least 8 years of experience shipping machine learning models to production, ideally in environments where reliability and quality are key (e.g., autonomous driving, industrial applications, healthcare)
• ▹Experience productionizing ML models mostly in unstructured data spaces such as NLP and vision
• ▹Experience with end-to-end development of ML models
• ▹Experience working on the long tail of data distribution, bringing models from prototypes to real-world systems

Soft skills

About the company

Lakera is on a mission to ensure AI does what we want it to do. It empowers security teams and builders to adopt AI technologies safely, working with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and foundation model providers to protect them and their users from adversarial misalignment. Lakera is also the company behind Gandalf, the world's most popular AI security game. Lakera has offices in San Francisco and Zurich.