Internship: R&d Llm Security and Defense

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**What you'll do**

Given the increasing importance of LLMs in various industries and their potential for widespread impact, ensuring their security is paramount. This internship aims to develop and maintain a robust LLM Security and Defense solution.

This solution will serve as a vital tool for safeguarding the deployment and usage of LLMs by:

- Conducting comprehensive security assessments: The solution will systematically evaluate LLMs for vulnerabilities such as bias, toxicity, and adversarial attacks. By identifying these potential risks proactively, we can mitigate their impact and ensure the responsible use of LLMs.
- Implementing robust protection mechanisms: The solution will incorporate effective input and output sanitization techniques to prevent malicious inputs from compromising the LLM's integrity and to safeguard sensitive information. This will help to protect the LLM from being exploited for harmful purposes.
- Providing actionable insights: The solution will generate clear and informative reports that highlight identified vulnerabilities and offer recommendations for remediation. This will empower organizations to make informed decisions about the deployment and management of LLMs, minimizing risks and maximizing benefits.

In the above-described context, the specific goals and tasks of the internship are as follows:

- Research: Conduct in-depth research on LLM security best practices, vulnerability assessment methodologies, and sanitization techniques.
- Solution Development: Design and implement an LLM security and defense solution using Python or other suitable programming languages.
- Security Testing Framework: Create a comprehensive framework for testing LLMs against various security threats, including adversarial attacks, data poisoning, and bias.
- Vulnerability Detection Algorithms: Develop algorithms or utilize existing techniques to identify and classify vulnerabilities in LLM outputs.
- Sanitization Techniques: Implement effective input and output sanitization techniques to mitigate security risks and protect sensitive information.
- Evaluation and Refinement: Continuously evaluate the solution's effectiveness and make necessary refinements based on testing results and emerging threats.
- Documentation: Create clear and concise documentation for the LLM security and defense solution, including user guides, technical specifications, and best practices.

We expect that 40% of time will be dedicated to research activities, and 60% to development.

**What you bring**
- Master's student in IT, machine learning
- Knowledge of technologies/techniques involved are: Python, SQL/noSQL databases, NLP, and Machine Learning libraries.
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Duration**: 6 months
- ** Start date**: February 2025
- In accordance with the French legislation, for any duration over 2 months, this internship is paid in line with the SAP gratification grid.

**Meet your team**
- Customers rely on SAP delivering trustworthy secure products. The “Secure Development Center of Excellence” is responsible for the SAP Secure Software Development and Operations Lifecycle and the respective Product Standard Security and Data Protection.
- The team is driving an automation assisted approach in significantly reducing security risks emerging during software development.

**Bring out your best**

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SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

**EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability**:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Requisition ID: 415568 | Work Area: Software-Research | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.