Research Intern in Agentic AI Security Frameworks at Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd - Singapore

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

24 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

23 Feb, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

AI Frameworks, PyTorch, HuggingFace, Python, C++, Linux, Security Analysis, Formal Verification, Prototyping, Algorithm Generation, Tool Calling, Information Retrieval

Industry

Telecommunications

Description

About Huawei Huawei is a global leader in information and communications technology (ICT), renowned for its pioneering work in AI hardware, large-scale computing infrastructure, and integrated software-hardware solutions. With a workforce of over 194,000 employees across more than 170 countries, Huawei operates the world’s largest R&D organization, including advanced research centers dedicated to next-generation AI and processor technologies. At Huawei, innovation isn’t just a buzzword—it’s built into the DNA of the company. Its full-stack AI ecosystem spans from the hardware accelerator’s architecture to the firmware, system integration, workload scheduling, all the way to algorithm optimizations. Meanwhile, applications cover a wide range of scenarios from wearables all the way to entire clusters & data centers. About the lab With more than 20 sites across Europe, and over 1500 researchers, Huawei’s European Research Institute (ERI) oversees fundamental and applied technology research, academic research cooperation projects, and strategic technical planning across our network of European R&D facilities. This specific role is based at Huawei’s Zurich Research Center, launched 6 years ago and is already home to more than 160 experts. You would be joining the AI Computing Group within the Computing Systems Lab, a dynamic team of 20+ researchers focused on advancing AI solutions across hardware, systems, software, and algorithms. Join us at the forefront of AI computing systems innovation! Problem Statement AI models that can meticulously reason, prepare multi-stage plans, and execute them to achieve complex tasks are fundamental for building future AGI systems. It is crucial that the LLM models not only generate very high-quality planning and responses but also that they can prepare code snippets to execute, test, self-reflect, or even reach out to the outside world to not only ensure the correctness of the response but also ensure quasi-human level intelligence to guide us in achieving complex tasks. However, an AI model that can execute code or communicate with the outside world (e.g., the internet) poses a monumental security threat. Recent research shows that there exist numerous ways to divert a safe response of an AI agent by either influencing its alignment – generate malware or use unsafe APIs, or use excessive permissions to leak sensitive user information to the outside world (e.g., directly post user query to a social media website), polluting long term model context, generate malicious code and so on. Therefore, the security and safety of the current LLM-based agentic systems are questionable and is an open research question. Together, we will investigate the broader security aspect of the agentic systems and design and verify the fundamental building blocks necessary for a trustworthy AI agent system. Responsibilities We are designing next-generation, trustworthy, reasoning, agentic systems and investigating potential attack surfaces to mitigate them, and specifically building the algorithms, tools, and systems for efficient and highly secure agents that can solve complex tasks by information retrieval, code generation, tool calling, communicating with other agentic systems, and so on. As a research intern, your responsibility is to contribute to these research endeavors by prototyping new security primitives for AI agents. This includes, but is not limited to, new OS, hypervisor, driver modules to run isolated execution environments, identify and attack simulations. You will also be involved in rigorous security analysis and formal/semi-formal verification of the secure agentic systems. In summary, you will contribute to fundamental AI security research, prototyping, publishing research papers at top-tier AI and security venues, and drafting patents. Requirements · You are an enrolled master's or PhD in computer science, specifically in either AI/systems/ security, at a reputable university, or you have finished a master’s or PhD very recently. · Very good understanding of AI frameworks (PyTorch/HuggingFace). · Some familiarity with attacks on AI models: membership inference, prompt injection, etc., is a plus. · Proficient in programming such as Python and/or C++. · General Linux power user skills are an asset. · Ability to work independently on nontrivial analysis and development tasks · Strong communication skills, ability to perform and present a detailed analysis of experimental results · Strong motivation to join a cutting-edge industrial research environment By applying to this position, you agree with our PRIVACY STATEMENT. You can read in full our privacy policy at https://www.huawei.com/en/privacy-policy.

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Responsibilities

The intern will contribute to designing trustworthy, reasoning, agentic systems by prototyping new security primitives for AI agents, including developing new OS, hypervisor, or driver modules for isolated execution environments. Responsibilities also involve rigorous security analysis, formal/semi-formal verification, publishing research papers, and drafting patents.