The Role:
The Director of AI Safety at Openchip will be responsible for ensuring that our AI systems are secure, ethical, and aligned with industry safety standards. This role demands a vertically integrated approach, addressing AI security from high-level applications down to low-level implementation. The ideal candidate will lead the development of safety mechanisms, guardrails, and validation frameworks to build trusted AI systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and implement AI safety and security strategies across the Openchip software stack, ensuring compliance with ethical AI principles, security best practices, and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and oversee the implementation of AI guardrails, model validation frameworks, and trustworthiness assessments for AI applications.
- Conduct end-to-end validation and benchmarking of AI models, from application-level integration down to low-level hardware execution.
- Ensure robustness, fairness, and explainability of AI models deployed on Openchip’s platform.
- Work closely with the AI applications, AI agents and AI model optimization teams to embed safety and security into the entire AI lifecycle.
- Drive research and development in AI security mechanisms, including adversarial defenses, secure AI pipelines, and trusted execution environments.
- Showcase the value of the Openchip software stack in terms of safety and trustworthiness to the outside community.
- You will be reporting to the Chief AI & Software Systems Officer within Openchip
Qualifications:
- MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
- Proven experience in AI safety, security, or trustworthiness, ideally in a leadership role.
- Strong understanding of AI risk assessment, adversarial machine learning, LLM guardrails, and secure AI deployment.
- Familiarity with AI security tools, model evaluation frameworks, and privacy-preserving AI techniques.
- Experience with benchmarking AI performance across software and hardware layers.
- Strong technical knowledge of AI architectures, neural networks, and distributed computing.
Soft Skills:
- Strategic thinker with the ability to define and execute AI safety roadmaps.
- Strong leadership and ability to build and manage a high-performing AI safety team.
- Excellent collaboration skills to work with cross-functional teams across software, hardware, and business units.
- Effective communicator with the ability to convey AI safety principles to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Passion for AI ethics, safety, and regulatory compliance.
What We Offer:
- Join an innovative team and experience company growth.
- We believe in investing in our employees and providing them with opportunities for growth and career development.
- Work in a hybrid environment with flexible scheduling.
- We offer a remuneration package that values your experience.
- A chance to work on one of the most transformative AI and silicon engineering companies in Europe.
- The position will be based in Ghent (Belgium). Occasional travel to Barcelona (Spain) might be required.
We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change the silicon industry and help build a better world. If you feel identified with Openchip, please contact us.
At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential—regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
