ESET Nederland

AI Security Engineer (m/f/n)

ESET Nederland  •  Bratislava, SK (Hybrid)  •  60 minutes ago
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Job Description

You will become part of the newly established AI Threat Research and AI Conversation Security team within the Technology Division in Bratislava. As a founding member, you have a unique opportunity to shape the team's direction and methodology from the ground up. The team researches attacks against conversational AI systems — probing and breaking them to understand how adversaries exploit large language models.

Beyond research, the team designs and implements detection mechanisms and translates these defenses into shipping products across endpoint, cloud, and standalone form factors.

As a Conversational AI Security Engineer, you bridge adversarial research and production engineering — building detection mechanisms to defend conversational AI systems and shipping those defenses as products. Your work spans the full lifecycle, from breaking models to running detection in production.

About the Role

  • Research attacks against conversational AI systems — exploring, probing, and breaking them to discover vulnerabilities before adversaries do.
  • Design and propose mitigations, protections, and detection strategies based on findings from adversarial research.
  • Build a multilayered detection core, combining different approaches toidentifymalicious prompts andattemptsto manipulate AI systems.
  • Productize detection capabilities — packaging anddeploying themacross endpoint, cloud, and standalone environments.
  • Collaborate with the broader threat detection department, product teams, and endpoint teams to integrate defenses into shipping security solutions.
  • Evaluate and experiment with open-source and proprietary AI tooling to stay current with the rapidly evolving attack surface.
  • Shape the team's technical direction andmethodologyas a founding member, with the opportunity to grow into a Team Lead role over time.

Essential Requirements

  • Strong software engineering background — ability to build production systems, not just prototypes.

  • Proficiencyin Python for building detection and security tooling.

  • Understanding ofhow large language models work and how they can be manipulated or attacked, including prompt injection, jailbreaking, and adversarial inputs.

  • Ability to work independently in a newlyformingteam with minimal defined processes.

Desirable Requirements

  • Experience with machine learning and AI, including fine-tuning and deploying language models.

  • C++ for performance-critical detection components.

  • Background in cybersecurity or threat research.

Technologies

Python, C++,PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, scikit-learn,vLLM,Ollama, ONNX, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, OpenClaw,OpenCode, Git, JIRA, Confluence

Compensation

Basic wagecomponent(brutto):from2800 EUR/m. (brutto)

*The final basic wagecomponentcan be increasedaccordingly to individual skills and experience of the selected candidate.
* Performance bonus 2 times per year up to10% of the basic salary paid for the evaluationperiod(usually 6 months).

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Benefits

Health & well-being

  • BenefitPlus
  • Healthcare (check-ups/annual programs)
  • Multisport card
  • Travel card "električenka"
  • Supplementary pension saving
  • Sick days

Family

  • Marriage allowance
  • Childbirth allowance
  • Parental contribution
  • ESET family events (Family day, St.Nicholas)

Office

  • Refreshments in the office (fruits, coffee, soft drinks)
  • Let´s get together breakfast
  • Activity room, quiet room
  • ESET events (Žranica, Christmas party..), teambuildings

Other

  • Loyalty allowance
  • Loyalty extra days off
  • Loyalty cake
  • Loyalty glass award
  • Refer a friend
  • Christmas presents
  • Discounts from external providers

Primary location

Bratislava

Additional locations

Time type

Full time

ESET Nederland

About ESET Nederland

ESET Nederland is de officiële distributeur van ESET Internet Security oplossingen in Nederland. ESET is een wereldspeler op het gebied van internetbeveiliging en actief in 180 landen.Onze uitgebreide productassortiment beveiligt alle soorten omgevingen en platforms, van werkstations en servers tot mobiele apparaten, en helpt onze klanten om altijd optimaal beveiligd te zijn in alle omgevingen. De superieure detectiemogelijkheden en lage systeemvereisten van onze oplossingen zijn en worden nog steeds erkend door onafhankelijke testorganisaties.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Sliedrecht, NL
Year Founded
1992
Website
eset.com
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