Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering
Core
Develop validation and patching methods for software vulnerabilities, ensuring fixes are correct, safe, and preserve existing behavior.
Role type
Senior IC security research engineer (AI safety & security)
Builds
AI-powered tooling for vulnerability validation and safe patch generation
Domain
Cybersecurity, AI safety, software engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, secure development (C/C++/Python), regression testing, behavior preservation, rigorous security judgment
Preferred skills
CVE/advisory publication, building fuzzers/static analyzers/symbolic-execution tools, LLM-based coding agents
Technologies
C, C++, Python, fuzzers, static analyzers, symbolic-execution tools, AI-assisted workflows
Responsibilities
Develop techniques to confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable; Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes; Define correctness and revalidation standards; Work on bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC