ByteDance

Senior Software Engineer - AI for Security, Data/Application

ByteDance  •  $156k - $388k/yr  •  San Jose, CA (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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About the Team
The Security Engineering team is a research and development (R&D) team that operates within the broader Security Organization. Their core responsibility is to construct, implement, and sustain secure infrastructures, platforms, and technologies. In addition, they provide support to cross-functional teams within ByteDance. The team's ultimate objective is to serve and safeguard ByteDance products and infrastructures on a global scale.

Responsibilities:
- Build and refine AI security datasets: Design and develop comprehensive, in-depth, and challenging datasets for AI-for-Security across different security scenarios.
- Explore model consistency and performance prediction in security contexts: Conduct deep research on LLM performance during training on security tasks and assess the performance limits of models in security applications.
- Develop security data and evaluation standards from an interpretability perspective: Propose interpretability-based standards grounded in model mechanisms to assess transparency and reliability of LLMs in security decision-making and remediation.
- Red Teaming and model optimization: Perform Red Teaming from an evaluation perspective to systematically identify weaknesses of LLMs in security contexts and propose targeted optimization strategies.
- Build RAG evaluation systems: Design end-to-end evaluation metrics and benchmarks for security-specific RAG systems, create automated evaluation workflows, and develop interpretability and traceability tools for RAG systems.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 annually.
ByteDance

About ByteDance

ByteDance is a global incubator of platforms at the cutting edge of commerce, content, entertainment and enterprise services - over 2.5bn people interact with ByteDance products including TikTok.

Creation is the core of ByteDance's purpose. Our products are built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make our innovations possible.

Together, we inspire creativity and enrich life - a mission we aim towards achieving every day. At ByteDance, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the users we serve. We are committed to building a safe, healthy and positive online environment for all our users.

We have over 110,000 employees based in more than 30 countries globally. Join us.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
China, CN
Year Founded
Unknown
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