Lakera AI AG

17.09.2025

Lakera acquired by Checkpoint in USD 300 million deal (venturelab.swiss)

16.09.2025

Check Point to acquire Lakera (startupticker.ch)

22.01.2025

Tech Tour Growth Top 50 showcases Swiss deeptech companies (startupticker.ch)

30.07.2024

Lakera secures USD 20M in Series A funding to advance real-time GenAI Security (venturelab.swiss)

25.07.2024

Lakera banks $20 million in series A round (startupticker.ch)

16.10.2023

Lakera secures USD 10 million in funding to revolutionize AI security (venturelab.swiss)

13.10.2023

Lakera goes live after $10m round to secure generative AI applications (startupticker.ch)

Senior Product Manager (Zürich)

Product Manager / Fulltime

The Product Manager role focuses on owning and evolving the core API and UI experience of Lakera Guard, the company’s flagship generative AI security platform. The job involves defining product vision and roadmap based on deep customer research, aligning application strategy with business goals, and working closely with engineering, design, sales, and marketing to deliver high-impact security features from concept to launch. You drive 0-to-1 product development and continuous iteration, support go-to-market efforts, and ensure Lakera Guard effectively solves real-world AI security challenges for technical enterprise users at scale.

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Senior Product Designer (Zurich)

Product Manager / Fulltime

The Senior Product Designer role is the founding design position in Lakera’s Zurich office, focused on defining how AI security products should look, feel, and function in a space with no established design patterns. The job involves translating highly complex AI and security concepts into clear, usable interfaces—such as threat detection dashboards, incident response workflows, and guardrail configuration tools—while working closely with product managers, engineers, and ML researchers. You set design standards, shape the UX vision for AI security, and help build the design culture, directly influencing how organizations safely deploy and trust AI systems at scale.

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Senior Research Engineer - Security Foundation Models (Zürich)

Research / Fulltime

The Research Engineer role focuses on building and scaling the core infrastructure behind Lakera’s next-generation AI security foundation models. The job involves designing and optimizing distributed training and inference systems for large-scale LLMs, implementing advanced post-training and adversarial training methods, and engineering robust ML pipelines that move cutting-edge research into production. As a foundational team member, you shape technical direction and systems end-to-end, enabling AI security models to run efficiently and reliably at real-world scale.

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Solutions Architect (Zurich)

Business Development / Fulltime

The Solutions Architect role is a hands-on, customer-facing position focused on helping enterprise customers design, deploy, and scale secure AI systems using Lakera’s platform. The job sits at the intersection of engineering, customer success, and enterprise architecture, involving technical leadership across onboarding, adoption, troubleshooting, and expansion. You act as a trusted technical advisor by designing AI security architectures, guiding best practices, resolving complex issues, and feeding customer insights back into product and engineering to shape how organizations securely run AI at scale.

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Forward Deployed Engineer – AI Security (Zürich)

Engineering / Fulltime

The role is a Forward Deployed Engineer focused on ensuring the successful deployment and expansion of Lakera’s AI security platform within large enterprise environments. The job sits at the intersection of customers and engineering, involving hands-on technical work such as deploying the platform across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid systems, designing integrations, solving performance and production issues, and occasionally building custom features or connectors. The FDE owns the technical success of key customers end-to-end, collaborates closely with sales, product, and core engineering teams, and translates real customer needs into product improvements while representing Lakera at a high professional level.

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Senior AI Engineer (Zürich)

Engineering / Fulltime

The Senior AI Engineer role focuses on building and scaling Lakera’s core AI safety infrastructure in a fast-paced startup environment. The job involves owning projects end-to-end across the full stack, from front-end user interfaces to backend systems, while designing new features, shaping system architecture, and improving existing codebases. You work closely with product, design, and users to prototype, iterate, and launch products, debug and optimize real-world AI systems, and help define the company’s technical vision, with a high degree of autonomy, responsibility, and impact.

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Senior ML Engineer (Zürich)

Engineering / Fulltime

The ML Engineer role focuses on designing, training, and deploying real-time machine-learning models that defend generative AI systems against security threats at scale. The job involves leading the development of high-performance AI security detectors, identifying edge cases and vulnerabilities through red-teaming, and building high-quality threat datasets to continuously improve model accuracy and coverage. You work end-to-end on production ML systems—particularly in unstructured data like language—while expanding model scope (e.g. multilingual, contextual defenses) and ensuring Lakera can reliably ship best-in-class AI cybersecurity protections with high frequency and real-world impact.

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Staff ML Engineer (Zürich)

Engineering / Fulltime

The ML Engineer role centers on leading the development of state-of-the-art machine-learning models that protect generative AI systems in real time at enterprise scale. The job involves expanding and improving AI security defenses by identifying edge cases, red-teaming existing detectors, and collecting or generating complex threat datasets, particularly in unstructured domains like language and code. You own ML systems end-to-end, from research and data to production deployment, while driving major increases in model coverage and ensuring Lakera can continuously ship best-in-class AI cybersecurity protections that shape the long-term future of secure AI use.

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Director of Engineering (Zürich)

Engineering / Fulltime

This Director of Machine Learning role leads Lakera’s Detectors Group, which is responsible for the core machine-learning systems that power real-time threat detection for generative and agentic AI. The job combines senior technical leadership and people management: setting the long-term technical vision and roadmap for AI security detectors, overseeing production-grade model quality and performance, and scaling a high-performing ML organization as the company grows. You manage managers and senior engineers, collaborate closely with product and go-to-market teams, and ensure Lakera’s detection systems remain best-in-class in accuracy, speed, reliability, and real-world impact.

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Research Internship (Zürich)

Research / Internship

The Research Intern role focuses on hands-on research and engineering of large-scale AI security foundation models with direct real-world deployment. The job involves designing and scaling novel LLM post-training methods, building and optimizing distributed training pipelines, experimenting with new model architectures, and benchmarking security in agentic AI systems. You own impactful research projects end-to-end, working closely with engineers and researchers to ensure your work moves from experimentation to production and actively protects AI applications at global scale.

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