Senior Software Engineer (Zürich / London / Berlin / Remote in Europe)

Who we are.

We create products people once couldn't have imagined – and now can't imagine living without. We bring together the best of machine learning, software engineering, and user experience design. 

We are protecting AI teams that disrupt the world. From LLMs to vision,  we test and guard your models at scale. We are powered by the world’s leading AI vulnerability database and our team consists of multidisciplinary and experienced entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists with MSc’s and PhD’s from the world’s leading institutions (University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, Max-Planck Institute, Ponts ParisTech). We are looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our team, and lead the way towards safe and secure AI.

Location(s): Preferably Zurich, London or Berlin - also open to receiving applications from candidates remotely based in Europe (travel to Switzerland and other European locations required)

Your day-to-day 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:

None of these are strict requirements but do illustrate what type of people would be most effective at Lakera right now. Ideally 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 safety and ethics.