Senior AI Security Researcher

Senior AI Security Researcher - (26000051)

Radware is a global leader of cyber security and application delivery solutions for physical, cloud, and software defined data centers.
At Radware, we live and breathe cybersecurity. It is our passion. Each day, our international team works to earn the trust of more than 12,500 organizations around the globe. Keeping them safe is our mission. To that end, we go head-to-head with politically motivated hacktivists, dangerous nation-state threat actors and other notorious cyber attackers -these are not your average adversaries. Backed by nearly 30 years of experience, Radware is best known for its technical excellence and innovative network and application security solutions. That is why it is so important that we build our team with bold and bright talent.

Radware’s CTO Office is where next-generation cyber protections are born. The CTO Office drives innovation by developing cutting-edge AI capabilities for Radware’s cybersecurity products and services. Our team tackles complex challenges in AI, application security, network security, and agentic security, while inventing state-of-the-art solutions that protect customers from emerging threats.

Radware is seeking a Senior AI Security Researcher. In this role, you will be responsible for building world-class solutions that detect and prevent attacks against AI applications, LLMs, and autonomous agents, including prompt injections, jailbreaks, data leakage, and other emerging AI-native threats.

What is the job:

This is a senior hands-on role for someone who combines deep AI expertise with a strong research mindset and the ability to build production-grade systems. We are looking for an independent, highly capable person who can take an idea from research, through model development and evaluation, all the way to scalable production deployment. We are looking for someone who can invent, validate, build, and ship.

What will you do?

· Lead hands-on AI research and development for Radware’s next-generation cybersecurity capabilities.
· Lead the development of advanced AI-driven protections for emerging threats against AI agents
· Fine-tune, adapt, evaluate, and optimize AI models, including open-source LLMs, embedding models, and classifiers.
· Turn research ideas into reliable production capabilities with strong accuracy, low latency, and long-term robustness
· Collaborate with research, engineering, product, and field teams to integrate new capabilities into Radware’s products.

What do you need to succeed?

· 3+ years of hands-on experience in AI, machine learning, NLP, deep learning, or production ML systems.
· Strong experience with LLMs, transformer-based models, embedding models and text classification.
· Proven ability to fine-tune, evaluate, optimize, and deploy AI models in production.
· Hands-on experience with AI frameworks such as PyTorch, Hugging Face, Sentence Transformers, vLLM, or similar tools.
· Research mindset with strong execution skills, independence, ownership, and ability to lead complex initiatives end-to-end.
· M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field.

Why you should join us:

Employees from more than 40 countries have chosen Radware as a place where they can belong. Radware has been recognized by Glassdoor and BDI as one of the World’s Best Places to Work, ranking among the top 100 companies across the globe in the IT category. Radware has also been named a Gold Winner for Application Security in the 2023 Globee Cybersecurity Awards, by Forrester a Leader in DDoS Protection, and has been named a Leader in WAF Market by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions. We are equally committed to our people. We strive to create a dynamic work environment that celebrates diversity, promotes equality, and thrives on the unique contributions of each individual. If you are ready to be part of a global-minded company that is inspired to create a better, safer future; and if and want to fight for the good guys and be at the forefront of helping companies protect their most critical assets from today’s cyber adversaries, then you’ve found the right fit at Radware.

Primary Location: IL-IL-Tel Aviv
Work Locations: Radware Israel, Tel Aviv 22 Raoul Wallenberg Street Tel Aviv 6971917
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