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About Lakera
Lakera is on a mission to ensure AI does what we want it to do. We are heading towards a future where AI agents run our businesses and personal lives. Here at Lakera, we're not just dreaming about the future; we're building the security foundation for it. We empower security teams and builders so that their businesses can adopt AI technologies and unleash the next phase of intelligent computing.
We work with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and foundation model providers to protect them and their users from adversarial misalignment. We are also the company behind Gandalf, the world’s most popular AI security game.
Lakera has offices in San Francisco and Zurich.
We move fast and work with intensity. We act as one team but expect everyone to take substantial ownership and accountability. We prioritize transparency at every level and are committed to always raising the bar in everything we do. We promote diversity of thought as we believe that creates the best outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Lakera’s core product features in close collaboration with the founding team.
- Find pragmatic solutions to complex algorithmic problems.
- Strike a balance between scalable code design and development speed. Shipping fast is key.
- Contribute to shipping new features and improvements to our products.
- Scale our existing software stack and algorithms to serve the most demanding use-cases.
- Help maintain Lakera’s DevOps stack to continuously improve our own development practices.
- Support the team in establishing a stable, high quality and flexible software engineering process.
- 6+ years of experience or had exceptional impact at the organizational level in developing production-level code across a variety of technologies;
- Experience in building up or leading teams while contributing to the core tech;
- Familiar with production level Python, C++, Golang or another interesting set of programming languages;
- Strong sense for product/customer needs;
- Enjoy working on a wide range of algorithmic problems and designing efficient software systems;
- Frequent contributor to open-source projects and an active participant in open-source communities;
- Productive by yourself as you solve abstract problems independently and produce results without constant supervision;
- Pragmatism, enjoy taking ownership, being hands-on, and getting things done while being mindful of our longer-term vision;
- Excited about a front-row seat in a fast growing, early-stage company (a rapidly changing, often ambiguous and undefined environment);
- Interest in AI security.
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