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Job Title: Postdoctoral Associate

Office/Location: SUNY Polytechnic Institute

The Center for Safe and Secure AI Robotics (CESSAIR) and the Center for Cybersecurity Research and Innovation (CCRI) are looking to hire a post-doctoral associate to carry out joint research in resilience of neural networks, including large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI systems and foundation models for Robotics, against cyberattacks. The appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year, given the availability of funds. The focus is on developing credible data and analytic tools for measuring the resilience of generative AI and foundation models for robotics to cyberattacks. Developing tools and methods for actively probing for vulnerabilities is within the scope of the research. The outcome of this research will be validated on both publicly available pretrained models and training data sets and in-house, privately developed models and training data sets. Curating these private data sets and training the associated models is within the scope of this job.

The successful candidate will join a multi-disciplinary research team of engineers, physicists, and other faculty at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. The position is based in Utica, NY. The successful candidate will have a doctoral degree in electrical engineering, computers science, physics, applied mathematics, or a closely related field. Required skills are proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks such as Keras, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other related software stacks, and a solid background in machine learning, cybersecurity, or AI robotics, and the ability or desire to design and implement experiments that probe model vulnerabilities. Experience with NLP/LLMs or generative AI, adversarial ML, software engineering practices (Git, reproducibility, experiment tracking), dataset curation, HPC/GPU programming, blockchain for secure data, C-family languages, and embodied AI/robotics are a plus. Experience with general network resilience, cellular automata, or blockchain for secure data is a plus.

The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary research team comprising mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and other faculty members at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. The position is based in Utica, NY.

Job Responsibilities

+ Work on research projects assigned by the PI

+ The duties include 1) actively seeking, reading, and discussing the research literature relevant to the project or projects in weekly group meetings; 2) identify and/or develop hypotheses and methods for advancing the research effort; 3) design and carry out computer experiments 4) collaborate with engineers to create prototypes to test the outcomes of this research; 5) write STEM papers for peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings.

+ Research projects initiated by the postdoc and approved by the PI

+ The successful applicant is welcome and encouraged to propose to the PI a project of their own for part-time research and development when the demands of other grant-funded projects allow for it.

+ Work on writing grant proposals

This position is contingent on the satisfactory completion of a background check; this position may require annual checks.

Salary: $60,000 - $65,000

Job Requirements:

Minimal Qualifications:

Doctoral degree in applied mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, or related fields from college or University accredited by the US Department of Education or internationally recognized accrediting organization.

Additional Information:

Additional Information:

Research Foundation for SUNY Polytechnic Institute offers exceptional benefits such as healthcare, dental, vision, pension plans, competitive pay, generous paid time off, tuition assistance, life insurance and long-term disability insurance.

As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, Research Foundation for SUNY will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, creed, religion, color, citizenship, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, predisposing genetic characteristics, gender identification or expression, genetic information, familial status, marital status, pregnancy, status as a domestic violence victim, criminal conviction, disability, military status, disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces Service Medal veteran, active duty or wartime campaign badge veteran, or other characteristic as protected by law. Please feel free to review your equal employment opportunities protections and laws pertaining to these protections at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Research Foundation employees are subject to restrictions related to participation in Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Programs, as defined and detailed in United States Department of Energy Order 486.1. You will be asked to disclose any such participation at the time of hire for review by the Research Foundation. The full text of the Order may be found at: https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0486-1-border/@@images/file