{"id":3849296,"url":"https://alion.io/job/averlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer","title":"Applied AI Scientist/Engineer","company":{"id":9866,"name":"Averlon","domain":"averlon.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/averlon","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Bengaluru, India"],"countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Function Calling","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Post-training","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false},{"name":"Red Teaming","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-05T17:32:04Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T17:32:04Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Applied AI Scientist/Engineer — Training LLMs for Cybersecurity\nJoin Averlon's AI research lab, built to lead research at the frontier of cybersecurity. As attackers increasingly use automation and AI, the security community needs models that can reason about systems, find weaknesses, and help defenders respond faster.\nOur lab trains and evaluates large language models (LLMs) across both defensive and offensive security. On the defensive side, it includes triage, mitigation, remediation, detection engineering, and digital forensics. On the offensive side, this includes penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability discovery, and exploitation. We host our task experts on inference platforms, models specialized for individual security tasks, for use by other companies as well as internally.\nAs an Applied AI Scientist/Engineer, you will help shape Averlon's research agenda and model capabilities. You will train, evaluate, and benchmark LLMs on real-world security tasks, design reinforcement learning environments, and help publish findings that advance the field.\nAbout the Team\nThe lab aims to publish one to two research papers and technical reports each month, including work on new reinforcement learning frameworks.\nResearch at Averlon spans LLM post-training involving continual learning, reinforcement learning, as well as agentic tool use, evaluation design, and large-scale benchmarking. You will work closely with our research team and alongside engineers with deep security expertise, who will help you learn the cybersecurity domain on the job.\nKey Responsibilities\nBenchmark open-weight and proprietary LLMs on hundreds of offensive and defensive security tasks.\nRL of LLMs for security use cases as a post-training or continual learning process. This involves designing RL environments and reward signals for security tasks, including agentic settings that involve multi-step tool use.\nTrack the research literature, reproduce relevant results, and assess new methods for adoption.\nDocument results, negative as well as positive, to support internal decision-making.\nContribute to research papers, technical reports, and blog posts that communicate the lab's findings to the wider community.\nRequired Skills and Qualifications\nStrong grounding in deep learning, evidenced by coursework and hands-on projects in which you trained DNNs or fine tuned LLMs/VLMs.\nWorking knowledge of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and language (or vision) models training.\nProficiency in Python and in PyTorch or a comparable deep learning framework.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to design rigorous experiments and draw sound conclusions from them.\nClear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical results to researchers and engineers.\nPrior knowledge of cybersecurity or compute clouds is not necessary. You will learn the domain on the job, working alongside our team.\nPreferred Qualifications\nHands-on experience with LLM post-training or continual learning.\nExperience applying reinforcement learning, particularly to language models.\nPublications at venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or EMNLP, including workshop papers and preprints.\nOpen-source contributions or software projects that others have adopted.\nExperience running and debugging distributed training on multi-node GPU systems.\nEducation and Experience\nAn MS or PhD from the IITs, ISI, IISER, IISc, BITS Pilani, the IIITs, or top NITs is preferred.\nMS and PhD graduates do not need prior professional experience.\nUndergraduate candidates are encouraged to apply if they meet the required qualifications and have hands-on deep learning experience beyond coursework, such as research projects, internships, or publications.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3798,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Cybersecurity","Cloud Security","Information Security"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-06T02:09:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":3,"expected_fill_days":40,"reasons":["seen:3","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-09T06:03:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/averlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/averlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T00:47:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1677,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":9866},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=9866"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faverlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faverlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faverlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/averlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faverlon-applied-ai-scientistengineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3849296}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"averlon.ai","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3849296},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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