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Senior AI Researcher

Vega·Tel Aviv, Israel·en
Not specifiedNot specifiedArtificial Intelligence ResearchCybersecurity

Join a cybersecurity company building an AI platform for security teams. Lead hands-on research and engineering to train, adapt, and deploy large language models, moving research ideas into production systems.

Responsibilities

  • Train, adapt, and scale LLMs using methods such as supervised fine-tuning, knowledge distillation, LoRA, and reinforcement learning.
  • Develop and evaluate algorithms, connecting academic research with production-grade AI systems.
  • Optimize models for quality, latency, throughput, and cost at scale.
  • Own the AI lifecycle, including prototyping, synthetic data generation, evaluation, deployment, and iteration on production features.
  • Work with engineering and product teams to turn research advances into AI capabilities.
  • Lead research initiatives to advance AI system capabilities.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience as a research scientist, applied scientist, or algorithms or machine learning engineer.
  • Master’s or Ph.D. in computer science, machine learning, data science, statistics, or a related field.
  • Expert proficiency with PyTorch and deep learning training and inference optimization.
  • Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, evaluating, or optimizing large-scale LLMs in research or production.
  • Strong Python skills and experience writing production-grade machine learning code.
  • Experience working with large-scale data and machine learning infrastructure.

Nice to have

  • Experience applying AI or machine learning to cybersecurity, such as threat detection, incident response, or log analysis.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning or preference optimization for LLMs.
  • Research publications, open-source contributions, or other work demonstrating research depth.

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