Group Manager, Detectors (Zürich)

Lakera AG

Job Overview

Location

Zürich

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As Group Manager of the Detectors Group at Lakera AG, you will lead the core machine learning systems that power the company’s AI security defenses, ensuring the fastest, broadest, and most reliable threat detection for GenAI and agentic AI applications.
• You will own the technical vision, roadmap, and execution for detector and defense models, lead and grow a team of ~12 engineers, recruit top ML and software engineering talent, develop senior ICs and tech leads, and partner closely with Product, Research, GTM, and other Engineering teams to shape the detection roadmap.
• Lakera is building the security layer for the GenAI and agentic AI era, with a mission to provide the best, fastest, and broadest threat detection to secure every GenAI and agentic AI application. The Detectors Group is central to this mission, delivering production-grade ML systems at scale.
• In this role, you will drive architectural and modeling decisions across production defense systems, establish technical and operational processes for experimentation and deployment, and design the organization for rapid growth without sacrificing execution velocity, while mentoring engineers and scaling leadership capacity.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior ML and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience across machine learning, applied AI, and software systems
• Comfortable operating at both deep technical and organizational/strategic levels
• Experienced managing managers and leading multi-layered teams
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate people, building leadership capacity
• Energized by solving problems at the intersection of people, technology, and organization
• Experienced in scaling teams and systems in high-growth environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the evolution of AI security defenses in the GenAI era
• Lead and grow a high-impact team of ML engineers and researchers
• Work closely with Product, Research, GTM, and Engineering teams as a key technical counterpart
• Drive technical strategy and execution for market-leading detection systems
• Build organizational processes for experimentation, deployment, and iteration at scale
• Contribute to a mission-driven company securing the future of AI applications

Skills & Technologies

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About Lakera AG

Lakera AG provides AI security software that protects machine-learning applications from adversarial attacks, prompt injection, data poisoning and other emerging threats. The Swiss company offers a cloud platform that continuously monitors, detects and blocks malicious inputs in real time across large language models and computer-vision systems. Its technology plugs into existing ML pipelines via API and is used by Fortune 500 enterprises and AI-first startups to maintain model integrity, ensure compliance and reduce security risk without slowing deployment cycles.

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