Renewable contract : Yes
Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent
Fonction : Temporary scientific engineer
The Inria Grenoble research center groups together almost 600 people in 27 research teams and 8 research support departments.
Staff is present on three campuses in Grenoble, in close collaboration with other research and higher education institutions (University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, INRAE, …), but also with key economic players in the area.
Inria Grenoble is active in the fields of high-performance computing, verification and embedded systems, modeling of the environment at multiple levels, and data science and artificial intelligence. The center is a top-level scientific institute with an extensive network of international collaborations in Europe and the rest of the world.
As part of the implementation of the EU AI Act, Inria coordinates the NoLeFa-84 project (see https://nolefa.eu), aimed at prototyping a new facility for testing and technical support to the EU authorities in charge of verifying the proper application of the regulation by AI system providers.
This includes for instance technical verifications related to data quality obligations, performance, robustness and AI security criteria, or requirements on transparency of the AI system.
Article 15 of the EU AI Act includes specific obligations regarding AI security, with a particular focus on attacks such as adversarial attacks, data or model poisoning, and confidentiality attacks. The exact technical criteria for compliance to these obligations remain however unspecified by the regulation itself, and are left to be further clarified and detailed by technical standards developed by the European technical committee for AI standardisation (CEN-CENELEC JTC 21), under a mandate from the European Commission.
Given the fast-evolving nature of this field, the objective of this standardisation work is to identify the most meaningful criteria and thresholds that can be used by AI system developers to determine the defense methods that are legally suitable (e.g. the percentage of attacks that an adversarial detection method can detect), rather than setting in stone one particular defense method or imposing too challenging expectations on providers.
The goal of this position is to contribute concurrently to the development of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21’s technical specifications detailing the legal obligations of the EU AI Act into practical criteria for developers, and to the implementation of concrete testing methods to verify them on the regulated AI systems.
The person will be co-supervised by the technical coordinator of the NoLeFa-84 project and by a researcher specialized in AI security (Antoine Boutet, PRIVATICS team). The work will be conducted in close coordination with Inria’s European partners in the NoLeFa-84 consortium (comprising another public body, 3 SMEs/startups and a research labs association), including standardisation specialists and R&D engineers. Synergies will also be sought with the PANAME project (see https://files.inria.fr/ipop/2025-06-26-paname/) related to the privacy auditing of AI models, in the frame of the IPoP project (see https://files.inria.fr/ipop/).
Following these contributions to the NoLeFa-84 project, opportunities can be envisioned for pursuing with a new contract on similar activities at INESIA, the French National Institute for Evaluation and Security of AI, that Inria is a founding member of.
From 2,692 € (depending on experience and qualifications).
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Defence Security :
This position is likely to be situated in a restricted area (ZRR), as defined in Decree No. 2011-1425 relating to the protection of national scientific and technical potential (PPST).Authorisation to enter an area is granted by the director of the unit, following a favourable Ministerial decision, as defined in the decree of 3 July 2012 relating to the PPST. An unfavourable Ministerial decision in respect of a position situated in a ZRR would result in the cancellation of the appointment.
Recruitment Policy :
As part of its diversity policy, all Inria positions are accessible to people with disabilities.
Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, supports the French government in national research and innovation strategies in the digital field, acting as Digital Programs Agency. Inria leads over 300 research and innovation projects with its 3,500 scientists, engineers, and support staff, in partnership with universities and the digital ecosystem (businesses, entrepreneurs, and public stakeholders). Together, we explore strategic fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum computing, cloud technologies, digital transformation in healthcare, digital twins, and digital technologies for defence. We develop practical solutions such as software, tech startups, partnerships with national companies, and cutting-edge training programmes. Our goal is to drive scientific, technological, and industrial excellence to ensure France’s digital sovereignty.
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