Research Associate

3 days ago

NTU Main Campus Singapore Nanyang Technological University Singapore Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

We are seeking to hire a Research Associate who will contribute to NTU's mission of advancing cutting-edge research in large language model (LLM) safety, adversarial robustness, and secure AI agent systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct cutting-edge research in large language model (LLM) safety, adversarial robustness, and secure agent architectures.

  • Design novel algorithms to defend against jailbreaking, backdoor implantation, and resource consumption attacks in LLMs.

  • Develop evaluation benchmarks and frameworks for LLM alignment, safety, and interpretability.

  • Collaborate with leading academic and industry partners to strengthen NTU's role in global AI safety research.

  • Prepare and publish high-impact research papers in premier venues (e.g., ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, AAAI).

  • Support national and international research grant proposals in AI safety and trustworthy AI domains.

  • Mentor postgraduate students and junior researchers in AI safety-related projects.

  • Disseminate research findings through conferences, invited talks, and outreach activities

Requirements:

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related discipline.

  • Strong research track record with publications in top-tier conferences (e.g., ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, ICML, AAAI).

  • Demonstrated expertise in LLM safety, adversarial robustness, jailbreak defenses, and model interpretability.

  • Experience in designing large-scale evaluation benchmarks for AI alignment and safety.

  • Background in security of AI agents, including backdoor detection, adversarial attacks, and defense methodologies.

  • Proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), and LLM fine-tuning techniques.

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in AI safety research.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for academic and professional dissemination.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Hiring Institution: NTU

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