AI Safety & Security Researcher

Giskard defends the vision of aResponsible AIthat serves the economic performance of companies while respecting the rights of citizens. To embody this mission, we are building a holistic testing platform for AI professionals toevaluate the quality & security of Generative AI applicationsbased on Large Language Models (LLMs).

Since 2021, we've been building based on open-source foundations (4K stars onGitHub) and pushing the frontier of applied AI Safety & Security research, to help major customers secure their GenAI applications, including BPCE, SG, AXA, Michelin, and more.

Company track record

In 2022, we raised ourfirst round of 1.5 million euros, led by Elaia, with notable angel investors including Hugging Face's CTO and Mistral AI's co-founder. To read more about this fundraising, you can readour announcement.

In 2023, we received astrategic investment from the European Commission to build a SaaS platform to automate compliance with the EU AI Act. You canread more here.

In 2024, we won a 3 M€ grant from Bpifrance to lead research in evaluation & mitigation for LLMs, in a collaborative consortium with Mistral AI, Artefact, INA and BnF. You can learn morehere.

About the role

We are looking for aresearcher with an entrepreneurial mindset andstrong applied experience in Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence, ideally withhands-on exposure to Generative AI / LLMs and AI application red-teaming.
We are hiring people located in France or willing to relocate.

Your missions

• Design and implement robust methodologies to test, evaluate, and red-team AI agents for enterprise use cases, integrating them into our core platform.
• Participate in red-teaming engagements and security audits of LLM-based systems, from planning attack scenarios to documenting findings and remediation paths
• Stay ahead of emerging threats through continuous scientific watch in AI Testing, Benchmarking, and Security, and apply that knowledge to identify vulnerabilities and failure modes in LLM-based systems proactively
• Collaborate with our engineering team to translate research concepts into production-ready code, participating in the full development lifecycle from prototyping to deployment.
• Communicate findings with other AI teams at customers & partners, such as Mistral AI, AWS, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, in the form of presentations and papers.

What we are looking for

Must have

• Strong ML/AI knowledge, particularly around LLMs and their failure modes.
• Solid cybersecurity fundamentals, including threat modeling and vulnerability assessment, preferably applied to AI systems.
• Strongwritten & oral communication skills in English.

Strong plus

• Demonstrated applied research experience with a focus on practical applications and tool development (papers, benchmarks, disclosed vulnerabilities).
• Solid software engineering skills (Git, Python), including comfort directing and reviewing AI-assisted workflows.
• Prior red-teaming, CTF, or bug-bounty experience.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

About you

• Passionate about building robust solutions to real-life problems
• Comfortable moving between rigorous research and shipping something real that customers use
• Hungry for learning new skills every day
• Conscious about technology's role in our society
• Empathetic team player

Recruitment process

You can get an offer with salary & equity in 4 weeks 🚀

• Fit interview: 20 minutes
• Short technical exercise at home
• Tech interview: 45 minutes
• Final interview: 1 hour

We valuediversity, equity, and inclusivity. Giskard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran, or disability status.

We areremote-flex. We value productivity and work/life balance. You can come to our office in Paris on a weekly basis if you live around Paris. You can also work remotely and come to the office on a monthly basis.

We offer a remote office kit to all full-time employees: a MacBook computer, external monitor, keyboard, mouse, etc. We also offer a very complete health insurance plan with Alan.

All full-time employees are granted asignificant equity package. We want to include everyone in the adventure and make it a collective win.

Salary:between60 K€ and 90 K€ / year (brut) +0.1 - 0.3% of equity