About Protect AI

Protect AI is shaping defining and innovating a new category within cybersecurity around the risk and security of AI/ML. Our ML Security Platform enables customers to see know and manage security risks to defend against unique AI security threats and embrace MLSecOps for a safer AIpowered world. This includes a broad set of capabilities including AI supply chain security Auditable Bill of Materials for AI ML model scanning signing attestation and LLM Security.

Join our team to help us solve this critical need of protecting AI!

Role:

Were looking for an exceptional AI Engineer with deep expertise in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models to join our growing team. In this role youll design develop and deploy sophisticated AI systems that form the core of our product offerings. You will work across the full machine learning lifecyclefrom research and prototyping to production deployment and ongoing optimization.

This position offers a unique opportunity to work with stateoftheart models and techniques while making meaningful contributions to our product roadmap. Youll collaborate closely with our crossfunctional teams including research scientists software engineers and product managers to bring AIpowered features from concept to reality.

Responsibilities:

• Create complex AI workflows and pipelines that power our core products and services

• Finetune a plethora of models (both large and small) using advanced techniques to improve performance and adapt to specific use cases

• Conduct indepth research to develop novel methodologies and techniques for building agentic workflows

• Develop forefront technologies to secure AI systems against emerging threats and vulnerabilities

• Evaluate and improve the performance of various AI models (NLP generative classification) for greater accuracy efficiency and scalability

• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to integrate AI capabilities into production systems

• Effectively communicate technical findings and insights to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders

• Stay abreast of the latest advancements in AI research and engineering actively contributing to the community through publications presentations or opensource contributions

Qualifications:

• Significant practical experience in building and deploying machine learning deep learning and neural networks from ideation to production in academia or industry settings

• Advanced knowledge in Deep Learning as applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as text classification feature extraction sentiment analysis topic modeling and named entity recognition

• Advanced knowledge in various finetuning methodologies of LLMs such as RLHF DPO PPO or GRPO with a demonstrated ability to stay current with emerging techniques

• Expertise in modern Python (type hints Pydantic) and at least one strongly typed programming language (Go Java C# C)

• Strong experience with deep learning frameworks particularly PyTorch and familiarity with the full NLP stack

• Handson experience with MLrelated tools such as Pandas Polars ScikitLearn and Jupyter

• Experience with workflow orchestration systems like Langgraph and familiarity with PydanticAI is highly desirable

• Knowledge of or experience with computer vision and audiobased models is a plus

• Excellent problemsolving skills and meticulous attention to detail with a passion for building highquality robust AI systems

What We Offer:

• An exciting collaborative work environment in a fastgrowing startup.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development including attending and presenting technical talks at meetups and conferences.

• A culture that values innovation accountability and teamwork.

• Opportunities to contribute to our open source projects with thousands of Github stars.

• Work with a team of talented and wellaccomplished peers from AWS Microsoft and Oracle Cloud.

• Work with best in class tools M2 Macbook Pro 34 Monitor modern tech stack and high quality collaboration tools.

• No bureaucracy and legacy systems. You are empowered to innovate and do your best work.

Protect AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.