AI Research Scientist, FAIR Security, Privacy, and Reliability

Meta

$160K — $190K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Research experience in safety, security, privacy, or robustness of AI models
  • Familiarity with adversarial machine learning and related vulnerabilities
  • Experience in testing or mitigating catastrophic risks in AI systems

Responsibilities

  • Conduct fundamental research to identify safety and security vulnerabilities in AI agents
  • Develop benchmarks for Meta's foundational model evaluation suite
  • Design and implement post-training solutions for AI safety and privacy risks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate research findings into production
  • Measure and evaluate risks related to memorization and reliability failures

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge research with real-world impact
  • Access to a collaborative and cross-functional team environment
  • Contribution to open-source projects and Meta’s foundational models
  • Recognition in leading research venues with high-profile publications
  • Direct involvement in translating research into production systems
Full Job Description
The FAIR Security, Privacy, and Reliability team breaks and fixes agents and the foundational models that power them. We conduct fundamental research to discover novel attacks, measure privacy, and find non-intuitive breaks in robustness. We frequently contribute those benchmarks to Meta's model Evaluation Reports and have published many of them in top research venues, earning top-1% recognition at ICLR and ICML. The team also lands novel post-training mitigations for these risks in both the open-source line of models and has multiple opportunities for direct research-to-production.

Responsibilities

Conduct fundamental research to discover novel safety and security failures, robust approaches to measuring memorization risk or reliability failures in AI agents and foundational models,
• Develop and contribute benchmarks to Meta's foundational model evaluation suite and/or the Evaluation Reports
• Design and implement novel post-training mitigations for safety, security, privacy, and reliability risks in foundation models
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate research into production systems

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Research experience in at least one of the following areas: safety, security, privacy, or robustness of AI models; adversarial machine learning; indirect prompt injections or jailbreaks; contextual integrity or memorization; reward hacking or other agent reliability failures; testing or mitigating foundation models for catastrophic risk (CBRNE, cyber, loss of control); or developing mitigations in any of these areas

Preferred Qualifications
• Track record of publications in top-tier research venues

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