Intermediate AI Research Engineer

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Department Summary :

MITRE’s Trustworthy & Secure AI Department within the Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy Innovation Center consists of a diverse team united by a passion and a sense of urgency to harness trustworthy and assured artificial intelligence (AI) 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. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration of AI.

Roles and 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 and large language models (LLMs) to meet operational needs in high consequence environments

Analyze AI use cases and recommend secure and trustworthy solutions to sponsors

Work in and provide technical expertise on cross-functional teams

Collaborate across government, industry, and academia to provide, assess, and shape trustworthy and secure AI-enabled systems

Contribute to projects or small teams to solve complex AI security problems for our sponsors

Basic Qualifications :

Typically requires :

a minimum of 2 years experience in artificial intelligence with a Bachelor's degree;

or an advanced degree in a branch of artificial intelligence who can immediately contribute at this job step;

or equivalent combination of AI-related education and work experience in a branch of artificial intelligence such as generative AI, AI assurance, computational linguistics, machine sensing and perception, machine learning, AI-ready data, decision support, cognitive science, and intelligent systems.

Hands-on experience with machine learning and one or more of the following technical areas : LLMs, generative AI, AI security, trustworthy AI, or AI testing and evaluation

Demonstrated advanced skills with Python and the standard ML stack (Tensorflow / Torch, NumPy, Pandas, etc.)

Ability to work independently to learn new technologies, methods, processes, frameworks / platforms, and systems

Excellent written and verbal communication skills to articulate challenging technical concepts to both lay and expert audiences

Must be a US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications :

Advanced degree in computer science, engineering, or related disciplines

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) :

Secret

Work Location Type : Hybrid

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