Senior Product Engineer (Zürich)
Senior Product Engineer (Zürich)
LakeraJoin to apply for the Senior Product Engineer (Zürich) role at Lakera. You want to operate at the cutting edge of AI, leading groundbreaking developments in AI safety and security for global impact. As a Senior Product Engineer at Lakera, you have the chance to contribute to and lead efforts across our whole stack: squeezing a few more milliseconds out of our inference pipeline, scaling auto red‑teaming algorithms to uncover flaws in GPT‑4, or re‑designing our data infrastructure. Your work will play a vital role in ensuring that AI can unleash its best potential—for good.
About Lakera
Lakera is on a mission to ensure AI does what we want it to do. We are building the security foundation for AI agents that will run businesses and personal lives. We empower security teams and builders so that they 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.
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.
About you
- 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.
Job Details
- Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
- Employment type: Full‑time
- Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Software Development