Junior AI Specialist

The Role The FortiGuard IoC team is looking for a junior AI Cybersecurity Specialist who is passionate about using AI to defend against threat actors.

You will be at the forefront of an arms race: using machine learning to detect advanced threats and building various AI tools to automate threat processes.

• Threat Detection: Design and deploy machine learning models to identify anomalies, malware, and zero-day threats within enterprise networks and cloud environments.
• AI Security (Adversarial ML): Secure our internal AI/ML pipelines against poisoning, evasion, and model inversion attacks.
• Automation: Develop AI-driven security automation to reduce response times and mitigate false positives in our IoC Research Team.
• Threat Intelligence: Analyze emerging threats and create IoCs.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Data Scientists, DevOps, and SOC analysts to add AI-driven solutions (eg. chatbots, AI agents, and Agentic RAG) to improve team productivity.
• Infrastructure: Developing AI workflows and maintaining AI development environments.
• API Utilization: Connecting applications to Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Claude, or LLaMA, and performing LLM fine tuning, etc.
• Model Integration: Wrapping machine learning models behind REST or GraphQL APIs to make them accessible, allowing software to send data (like text or images) and receive intelligent results.
• Agentic Workflows: Developing specialized APIs for AI agents, allowing them to interact with tools such as databases, internet search, or third-party software (Model Context Protocol).

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related field.
• Experience: 0-2 years of related experience.
• Technical Skills: o Proficiency in Python, Java, SQL, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP). o Experience with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn) and data processing frameworks (Spark, Flink, and Hadoop) o Strong knowledge of network protocols, encryption, and endpoint security. o Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes. o Solid understanding of data science o Deep understanding of how artificial intelligence works