A10 Networks, Inc · 1 day ago
Senior Staff ML Engineer - AI Safety & Evaluation
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$192K/yr - $192K/yr
5+ years expA10 Networks, Inc is focused on ensuring AI systems are safe and aligned with human intent. They are seeking a Senior Staff ML Engineer to lead the design, building, and evaluation of safety mechanisms for foundation models, guiding a team of research engineers in developing interventions and evaluation pipelines.
Cloud ComputingHardwareSecuritySEOVirtualizationWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Lead the development of model-level safety defenses to mitigate jailbreaks, prompt injection, and other forms of unsafe or non-compliant outputs
Design and develop evaluation pipelines to detect edge cases, regressions, and emerging vulnerabilities in LLM behavior
Contribute to the design and execution of adversarial testing and red teaming workflows to identify model safety gaps
Support fine-tuning workflows, pre/post-processing logic, and filtering techniques to enforce safety across deployed models
Work with red teamers and researchers to turn emerging threats into testable evaluation cases and measurable risk indicators
Stay current on LLM safety research, jailbreak tactics, and adversarial prompting trends, and help translate those into practical defenses for real-world products
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in machine learning or AI systems, with 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity
Experience integrating safety interventions into ML deployment workflows (e.g., inference servers, filtering layers, etc.)
Good understanding of transformer-based models and experience with LLM safety, robustness, or interpretability
Strong background in evaluating model behavior, especially in adversarial or edge-case scenarios
Strong communication skills and ability to drive alignment across diverse teams
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Company
A10 Networks, Inc
A10 Networks provides security and infrastructure solutions for on-premises, hybrid cloud, and edge-cloud environments.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$371.8MKey Investors
Silicon Valley BankSummit PartnersMitsui Global Investment
2025-03-12Post Ipo Debt· $193.8M
2016-12-02Post Ipo Debt· $25M
2014-03-21IPO
Leadership Team
Dhrupad Trivedi
President & Chief Executive Officer
Terry Young
Director, 5G and Service Provider Product Marketing
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