Agentic Reasoning ML Researcher

microTECH Global LTD; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

microTECH Global LTD is seeking an experienced AI safety researcher to advance state‑of‑the‑art methods for multi‑modal data, reasoning and alignment. You will design architectures that enable robust detection and analysis, exploring neural-symbolic approaches, knowledge grounding and interpretable AI techniques.

The role emphasizes publishing results, building scalable production‑ready tooling, and collaborating with cross‑cultural teams to push the boundaries of responsible AI and safety in

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/ML or related field.
• Proven track record in AI safety or explainable AI.
• Strong programming experience in Python and ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel AI safety research architectures.
• Develop scalable tools for AI detection and reasoning across modalities.
• Collaborate with diverse teams to translate research into production.

Skills

LLMs/VLMs

Neural networks

Explainable AI

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Knowledge graphs

Safety alignment

Multimodal reasoning

Education

PhD in CS/ML

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Keras

scikit-learn

Job description

We are looking for a passionate and motivated researcher with a solid track record of solving challenging problems, advancing state-of-the-art, and demonstrated passion for ground-breaking research that could be scaled to production environment with an emphasis on the intersection of AI and Safety.

Your responsibilities:

• Design and implement effective, efficient and novel architecture to enable AI detection system that understands and able to reason over complex multimodal data, such as images, videos, text and cultural knowledge.
• Explore novel techniques for visual question answering, visual reasoning, text-based reasoning, and multimodal knowledge grounding. Explore the use of knowledge graphs and other neural-symbolic techniques to enhance reasoning capabilities.
• Create new techniques to make AI models/Agentic AI system more interpretable, unbiased, transparent and aligned with human values for real-world scenarios.
• Create new techniques to ensure consistent alignment between user-centric explanations and intrinsic model behavior. Develop and implement state-of-the-art alignment techniques (e.g., RLHF, RLAIF, Constitutional AI) specifically tailored for LLMs CoT, agentic workflows and multi-step reasoning.
• Reverse-engineer on neural networks to understand internal workings of AI models rather than treating them as "black boxes". Implement and integrate AI explainbility techniques and tools.
• Develop data attribution methods to quantify the influence of specific data points (text and image) on a model's prediction and implement solution.
• Build rigorous benchmarks and datasets to measure the quality of reasoning capabilities and reliability, quality of user-centric explanations, model transparency, and effectiveness of treatments.
• Develop robust defenses against jailbreaking, prompt injections, and adversarial exploits that target a model’s planning and tool-use capabilities.
• Communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Turn cutting-edge AI detections and AI safety papers into high-performance, scalable code, transforming theoretical breakthroughs into production-ready tools and frameworks

Requirements:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Mathematics or other related fields.
• Focused on research in the AI field with good track records and high motivation in Explainable AI and Safety domain.
• Strong proficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs)/VLM, neural networks, neuro-symbolic AI, graph reasoning architectures.
• Strong background in Python, Java, or C++, with deep knowledge of ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Successful experience in AI alignment to human values and expectations, model robustness improvement, controlled and continual learning, neural network interpretability and editing techniques is highly valued.
• Pioneering novel methods and neural networks that revolutionized machine learning or the AI field, or revolutionized the industry, is a big bonus.
• Strong publication record in top conferences (i.e. NeurIPS/ICLR/ICML/ AAAI/ACL/CVPR/ICCV/EMNLP/NAACL).
• Candidates with ICPC, IOI/IMO, IOAI and other international competition in computer science, machine learning, and AI, etc. are highly preferred.
• Good teamwork, enjoy working with multi‑culture teams, passionate in challenging the status quo.