Senior Researcher, Machine Learning and System Security

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Helsinki System Security Lab (HSSL) - Senior Researcher, Machine Learning and System Security
• ● With recent developments in Agentic AI, the impressive capabilities of large language models and the widespread application of AI-based services, products and tools, the security architecture of (consumer) computing devices is adapting to new concepts of computing - among others the transition from application-based to agentic devices, heterogeneous architectures with security features distributed between accelerators and CPUs as well as new access control demands related to balancing agentic capabilities against protection a devices against attacks. Additionally, machine learning models can likely also be leveraged as a framework for security decisions related to anomaly detection, threat intelligence (APT) - even access control - if the logic can be synthetized to setups that are small and fast enough to be used e.g., locally on terminal devices without harmful loss of accuracy.
• ● PhD-level candidates
• ● Strong educational background in probabilistic machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics
• ● Hands-on experience in applying AI/ML to real-world use cases
• ● Familiarity with computing architecture and operating system internals
• ● Sufficient skills to work and interact in English
• ● Good team-working skills
• ● Candidates with interest to conduct research in an industrial environment
• ● The following we count as advantage:
• ● Solid experience with low-level, OS-like software (hypervisors), hardware architecture
• ● using programming languages such as C, C++ or Rust.
• ● Employement type: This is a full time employee position.
• ● Helsinki Systems Security Laboratory in Huawei Finland (HSSL) drives renewal and mastery in the field of platform / device related security technologies for consumer devices such as mobile phones and PCs. Our topical expertise lies in hardware-assisted memory protection, trustworthy execution (processor isolation primitives, hypervisor, TEE, kernel hardening), as well as functionality like device key management, attestation and integrity. We are also making inroads in the areas of security testing and AI protection on terminal devices.