LLM-Safety Research Intern

IN-CYPHER, Imperial College London's flagship research program in Singapore, advances security, privacy, and trust in healthcare-from implantables and wearables to hospital networks and clinical workflows. This internship will be about evaluating LLM jailbreak transferability and defence robustness in high-stakes healthcare contexts.

Key Responsibilities

• Tests jailbreak transferability across major LLM APIs
• Quantifies defense robustness under healthcare-specific threat models
• Benchmarks both general-purpose and medical LLMs
• Surfaces insights for IN-CYPHER-aligned deployment guidelines

Minimum Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Experience with LLMs/NLP and/or AI security (e.g., privacy, robustness)
• Python (requests/asyncio, logging), Deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch), pandas, Git, Docker
• Experience with web APIs, experiment hygiene
• Reading and familiarity with ML safety papers, adversarial prompting, LLM APIs
• Clear technical writing + repo reproducibility standards

Stipend: $1,500 per month.

Duration: 6-9 months

Informal enquiries are greatly welcome and can be directed to Dr Viktor Schlegel v.schlegel@imperial.ac.uk.

Questions about the recruitment process, should go to the HR at Imperial Global Singapore hrigsingapore@imperial.ac.uk.