Data Scientist / Sr. Data Scientist - Technical AI Ethicist

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Salesforce's Office of Ethical and Humane Use is seeking an experienced responsible AI data scientist with an adversarial approach and experience conducting ethical red teaming to contribute to our ethical red teaming practice. In this role, you will help us gain a deep understanding of how our models and products may be leveraged by malign actors or through unanticipated use to cause harm. In addition to adversarial testing, you will analyze current safety trends, and develop solutions to detect and mitigate risk, while working cross-functionally with security, engineering, data science, and AI Research teams. You will bring technical depth to the assessment of AI products, models, and applications, in order to identify the best technical mitigations to identified risks.

The ideal candidate will have technical experience in generative as well as predictive artificial intelligence and in responsible / ethical AI Responsibilities :

• Adversarial Testing

Provide technical leadership in designing, prototyping, and implementing comprehensive adversarial testing strategies, including both automated and manual adversarial testing approaches

Contribute to the development of detection models, safety guardrails, and other proactive measures to prevent and mitigate risks posed by bad actors

Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code (primarily in Python) to support research efforts and facilitate the evaluation of AI systems

Participate in scoping, documenting, and implementing tests with partner teams, including the implementation of mitigations identified during testing

Write reports covering the goals and outcomes of testing operations, including significant observations and recommendations

Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

In office expectations are 36 days / a quarter to support customers and / or collaborate with their teams.

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