Hiring: Principal AI/ML Engineer - AI Safety & Evaluation Company: A10 Networks, Inc Location: San Francisco Bay Area Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 10:46:35 Target Skills & Keywords : Fine-tuning, LLM, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Systems Design, Systems Engineering About the job Experience: •7+ years of experience in applied machine learning, AI infrastructure, or safety-critical systems, with 3+ years in a senior or staff-level technical leadership role Required Skills: •Architect and lead the development of model-level defenses against jailbreaks, prompt injection, and custom policy violations •Define and drive evaluation strategies, including adversarial testing and stress-testing pipelines, to identify safety weaknesses before deployment •Set technical direction for scalable mitigation techniques such as safety-focused fine-tuning, prompt shielding, and post-processing methods to reduce harmful or non-compliant outputs •Partner cross-functionally with red teamers and researchers to convert emerging threats into measurable evaluations and system-level safeguards •Scale and improve human-in-the-loop pipelines for detecting toxic, biased, or non-compliant outputs •Stay up to date with LLM safety research, jailbreak tactics, and adversarial trends, and apply insights to real-world defenses •Comprehensive expertise in transformer-based architectures and experience building or evaluating safety interventions for LLMs •Proven expertise in analyzing and addressing adversarial behaviors, edge-case failures, and misuse scenarios Qualifications: •Hands-on work designing prompt-level defenses, content filtering systems, or mechanisms to prevent jailbreaks and policy violations •Contributions to AI safety research, industry standards, or open-source tools related to model robustness, alignment, or evaluation •Operational familiarity with model governance frameworks, including safety policies, model cards, red teaming protocols, or risk classification methodologies Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!