Associate AI Security Engineer

1 week ago

McLean, United States MITRE Full time

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE—and make a difference with us.

MITRE’s Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy Innovation Center is home to an interdisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team united by a passion to catalyze consequential use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We are 300 strong and growing We collaboratively work across government, industry, and academia to address complex AI and Autonomy challenges for the benefit of our nation. We apply our trusted technical expertise to enable the effective, assured, and responsible application of AI to critical government missions. MITRE aims to realize the transformative potential of AI for public good.

Department Summary:

MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI Department within the Artificial Intelligence & Autonomy Innovation Center consists of a diverse team united by a passion and a sense of urgency to harness trustworthy and assured artificial intelligence 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.

MITRE has state-of-the-art high performance computing resources and a recently acquired NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD system capable of an exaFLOP of 8-bit AI compute, enabling the development and deployment of foundation models for generative AI applications, including large language models (LLMs). We are looking for research engineers with applied technical expertise in deep learning, high-performance computing, and advanced topics in LLM deployment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The position involves researching, developing, evaluating, and integrating AI capabilities, with a particular focus on security and trust, especially for generative AI. Specific responsibilities will include:

  • Conduct research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration of AI, including LLMs, to help address critical national and global challenges in domains including health, transportation, law, climate change, national security and defense
  • Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex AI security problems for our sponsors
  • 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

Basic Qualifications:

  • Typically requires less than 1 year of related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience
  • Hands-on experience with machine learning and one or more of the following technical areas: Generative AI, AI Security, Trustworthy AI, AI Governance, or AI T&E
  • Demonstrated skills with Python and the standard ML stack (Tensorflow/Torch, NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance
  • This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience publishing consequential AI research in journals or conferences
  • 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
  • Active IC or DOD TS/SCI security clearance

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

None

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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