HSBC

Associate Director, Software Engineering (Guardrail Platform AI Safety Track)

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8 hours ago
Shenzhen, ChinaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and productionize AI safety detectors for prompt injection, jailbreaks, personally identifiable information, data leakage, content safety, policy violations, system prompt leakage, and agent or tool-use risks.
  • Build detector pipelines using rules, pattern matching, NLP/ML classifiers, embedding models, LLM-as-a-Judge evaluators, and hybrid strategies with confidence scoring and policy-driven actions.
  • Develop and optimize detector models and evaluation workflows, including test-set creation, data labeling, fine-tuning, model validation, threshold calibration, precision and recall optimization, and regression testing.
  • Evaluate, benchmark, integrate, and productionize industry and open-source AI safety frameworks, models, and third-party services.
  • Design end-to-end safety protection patterns across RAG systems, coding assistants, conversational AI, and agent applications.
  • Build AI safety observability and governance capabilities including telemetry, tracing, dashboards, evaluation metrics, audit trails, feedback loops, and operational controls.
  • Partner with AI platform, infrastructure, security, and application teams on performance, scalability, detector lifecycle management, rollout, and production operations.

Requirements

  • Experience developing first-party AI safety detectors for prompt injection, jailbreaks, personally identifiable information, data leakage, toxicity, policy violations, or agent safety.
  • Experience building fine-tuning pipelines for safety-oriented large or small language models, including dataset curation, labeling strategies, training workflows, evaluation design, and production validation.
  • Experience evaluating, integrating, and productionizing third-party or open-source detector solutions based on quality, latency, cost, operational fit, and governance requirements.
  • Experience making build-versus-buy decisions and taking internally developed or externally sourced detector solutions through production rollout and ongoing operation.
  • Experience with AI evaluation or observability tools such as Langfuse, LangSmith, Arize, Phoenix, or similar platforms.
  • Familiarity with data loss prevention, secret scanning, document classification, or enterprise information protection tooling.
  • Experience with adversarial testing, red teaming, or continuous attack simulation for AI systems.

Benefits

  • Flexible working and opportunities for continuous professional development and career growth.
  • Inclusive and diverse workplace with equal opportunity employment practices.
  • Location: Guangzhou or Xi'an.

Tech Stack

Phoenix
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About HSBC

10,000+ employees

HSBC is a global bank that provides retail, commercial and investment banking, payments, and wealth management to individuals, SMEs, and multinationals. It earns fees, interest income, and trading revenues through branches and digital platforms across major markets. Headquartered in London, it serves over 40 million customers in 58 countries and is listed in London, Hong Kong, New York, and Bermuda.

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