Description:We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Artificial Intelligence Engineer to join our Lockheed Martin Artificial Intelligence Center (LAIC) team. As a key member of our Red Team, you will play a critical role in developing technologies and products that leverage Artificial Intelligence to provide discriminating capability to our customers.
The AI Red Team ensures the safety, security, compliance, and resilience of AI systems across their lifecycle. We take a proactive, adversarial approach to testing, evaluating, and certifying AI models and infrastructure against data risks, adversarial threats, hardware/software vulnerabilities, and regulatory requirements. Our multidisciplinary team—spanning data, algorithms, hardware/software, and ML frameworks—develops security frameworks, enforces best practices, and drives responsible AI adoption.
About the Role:
As an AI/ML Algorithms and Frameworks AI Security and Compliance Specialist, you will test and validate the security, robustness, and compliance of AI/ML models, ensuring they operate within defined safety, reliability, and ethical boundaries. This includes evaluating adversarial risks, bias, drift detection mechanisms, and LLM-specific threats. You will collaborate with AI developers, ML platform engineers, business partners, and control partners to ensure that AI models are secure, compliant, resilient, and responsible from the start.
Key Responsibilities:
● Assess all associated risks in ML algorithms across supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement, and deep learning models, ensuring resilience to adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and model inversion risks.
● Evaluate LLM-specific risks, such as prompt injection, model leakage, jailbreak attacks, and hallucinations, ensuring appropriate safety mitigations.
● Test and verify model drift and data drift detection mechanisms, ensuring AI models continue to perform within acceptable thresholds and that guard rails, fail-safe mechanisms, and fall backs are functional as intended.
● Assess compliance with AI security frameworks (e.g., NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 23894) and regulatory guidelines, ensuring adherence to ethical AI principles.
The selected candidate can work remotely, or at any major Lockheed Martin facility.
Must be a US Citizen.
What’s In It For You From onsite to remote, we offer flexible work schedules to comprehensive benefits investing in your future and security,
Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s comprehensive benefits package here. Do you want to be part of a company culture that empowers employees to think big, lead with a growth mindset, and make the impossible a reality? We provide the resources and give you the flexibility to enable inspiration and focus -if you have the passion and courage to dream big, work hard, and have fun doing what you love then we want to build a better tomorrow with you.
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Basic Qualifications:● Strong knowledge of ML algorithms and security risks, including adversarial ML, data poisoning, and model robustness testing.
● Experience in testing LLM security vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, model leakage, and data extraction threats.
● Proficiency in ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and knowledge of security tools used in adversarial AI testing.
● Hands-on experience in Python and cloud-based AI/ML infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
● Understanding of model drift and data drift detection and ability to assess mechanisms for AI model stability with a working knowledge of AI model governance, explainability techniques, and bias mitigation strategies.
Desired Skills:● Awareness of the AI Threat Simulation frameworks e.g. MITRE ATLAS and ATT&CK Frameworks
● Understanding of Advanced Persistent Threats, Nation State Actors, Cyber Extortion, and other threat associated risks
● Working knowledge of MLOPS, LLMOps, and secure deployment of AI models.
● Working Knowledge of AI security and/or Cybersecurity tools.
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should KnowExpression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Washington or Washington DC is $128,200 - $225,975. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.
(Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.Join us at , where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.
As a leading technology innovation company, ’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SERVICES
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Artificial Intelligence
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First
