Senior NLP/LLM Researcher

Company Description

DeepKeep offers a cutting-edge AI Security Platform designed to ensure the security and trustworthiness of AI systems throughout their lifecycle. Leveraging generative AI as a core component, the platform provides capabilities such as an AI Firewall, AI Usage Control, Agentic AI Security, AI Red Teaming, and advanced Model Scanning. Trusted by cybersecurity teams across the globe, DeepKeep secures large language model systems, computer vision systems, AI agents, employee AI usage, and tailored AI applications. DeepKeep is at the forefront of innovation, addressing the rapidly evolving challenges of AI security.

Job Description:

We are seeking a Senior NLP/LLM Researcher to conduct advanced research and develop innovative applications focused on protecting and evaluating LLMs & agentic applications. In this role, you will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, working together to address critical challenges. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating new algorithms, models, and agents that help safeguard LLMs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create real-time protections: Develop innovative methods to detect and mitigate adversarial attacks on agents and keep them in line with the organization's policy such as avoiding hallucinations, leaking personal data etc.
• Develop new and unique evaluation methods: Implement and develop advanced metrics to evaluate agents' performance on multiple fronts.
• Research and Development: Conduct research on adversarial attacks, model protections and performance evaluation techniques for NLP models. Explore and develop state-of-the-art methods and propose innovative solutions.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other team members, participate in brainstorming sessions, and contribute to the team's success.

Qualifications:

• Professional Experience: 
• MSc. / PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related data-focused field And 4 years of data science experience.
• Or BSc. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related data-focused field And 7 years of data science experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in NLP.
• Professional Experience Advantages
• Cyber Security Research & Red Teaming: Experience in identifying, exploiting, and/or mitigating security vulnerabilities through hands-on research & adversarial testing.
• LLM safety & alignment: Experience developing & training LLM guardrails, such as jailbreak defenses, PII detection, content moderation etc.
• Agents & tool-using LLMs: Experience building, evaluating or red-teaming agentic systems.
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and transformers. 
• Strong mathematical background to understand and apply complex concepts. Ability to translate research findings into practical applications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective collaboration and teamwork.
• Research Experience in conducting theoretical or experimental research, using statistical tools and mathematical formulations to solve complex problems.
• Professional Experience in developing products in production environments, creating features from conception to completion.