Lead Responsible AI Engineer

What's the role?

About the team

The Responsible AI Engineering team is part of our AI & Analytics Infrastructure organization, building the governance, tooling, and technical safeguards that enable the safe adoption of agentic AI across HERE. As part of this team, you will help identify how AI systems can fail, assess the resulting risks, and develop practical technical solutions to mitigate them. You will work across Responsible AI, AI security, governance, and compliance, partnering with engineering and product teams globally.

As a Lead Responsible AI Engineer, you will become a subject matter expert in Responsible AI and help translate AI risks and regulatory expectations into practical engineering solutions.

This is not primarily an AI model development role. Your focus will be on understanding how AI systems, LLMs, and AI agents can create risks and developing the tooling, controls, and guardrails needed to manage those risks.

• Responsible AI by Design:
• Develop tools, infrastructure, and processes that help developers, product owners, and product managers achieve Responsible AI compliance.
• Conduct Responsible AI assessments and provide technical guidance on risk identification, mitigation strategies, and regulatory compliance evidence.
• Shape company-wide processes to shift AI governance left and embed Responsible AI principles throughout the product development lifecycle
• AI Governance Tooling and MCP Scanners:
• Design, develop, and maintain automated tooling for AI governance and risk evaluation.
• Develop and enhance MCP scanning capabilities for automated assessment of AI systems, AI agents, and MCP servers.
• Build infrastructure that collects risk-related metadata, performs automated analysis, and produces actionable recommendations to improve security, governance, and compliance outcomes.
• Develop scalable CI/CD-integrated solutions that enable continuous evaluation of AI systems and AI-related risks.
• AI Guardrails:
• Develop technical guardrails that help ensure secure, reliable, and compliant AI systems.
• Design and implement controls for AI agents including runtime protections, policy enforcement, input and output validation, access controls, risk monitoring, and governance automation.
• Support teams in identifying and mitigating AI-specific risks while enabling safe adoption of emerging AI technologies.
• OSS Compliance Support:
• Support development teams using the company's OSS compliance tooling and processes.
• Maintain and improve OSS scanning infrastructure, assist teams in resolving scan failures and compliance issues, and contribute to automation that improves the efficiency, reliability, and usability of OSS compliance workflows.
• Software Engineering Excellence:
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain production-grade software and automation solutions.
• Establish engineering best practices including unit testing, integration testing, CI/CD automation, code quality validation, and operational monitoring. Drive reliability, maintainability, and scalability of Responsible AI and compliance-related platforms and services.
• Communication and training:
• Communicate with and support teams adopting AI technologies, produce guidelines for developers and product managers, and develop training materials covering Responsible AI, AI governance, AI guardrails, and OSS compliance processes.

NOTE: This is an individual contributor role.

Who are you?

• Hands-on software development experience across programming or scripting languages. Experience with Python is particularly relevant.
• Practical understanding of AI systems, LLMs, AI agents, and agentic workflows and the risks associated with their use.
• Understanding of Responsible AI concepts and AI risk management, including areas such as unreliable or harmful outputs, misuse, unsafe agent actions, security vulnerabilities, and inappropriate access to tools or data.
• Familiarity with AI governance and the regulatory landscape, and the ability to translate governance or regulatory expectations into technical controls and evidence.
• Experience designing, testing, deploying, and maintaining production-grade software and automation.
• Experience working with CI/CD environments; familiarity with GitLab CI/CD is useful.
• Strong engineering fundamentals around testing, automation, reliability, maintainability, and monitoring.
• The ability to work effectively with engineering, product, security, governance, and other stakeholders and turn complex risk considerations into practical solutions.
• Experience with developer tooling, AI security, security engineering, compliance automation, privacy, OSS compliance, or governance systems can further support your success in this role.

What Do We Offer?

• The opportunity to tackle meaningful and challenging problems
• A chance to continuously learn and stay on top of the latest technology trends
• Work that has real-world impact, shaping the future of mobility and technology
• Regular feedback to help you grow and succeed in your role
• A collaborative and supportive team environment where your contributions are valued
• Competitive salary plus variable bonus
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid working environment
• Medical coverage for you and your family
• This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland” or KUP (Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)

Life at HERE in Poland comes with a competitive total rewards package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and performance. This includes a base salary, a Short-Term Incentive (STI) bonus (percentage based on role), a creative tax advantage for eligible positions, private medical care (including dental), life insurance, a meal allowance, vision reimbursement, a remote work allowance (if applicable), access to MyBenefit and Multisport programs, and various wellbeing initiatives. Paid time off, sick leave, and parental leave are provided in accordance with the Polish Labor Code.

Who are we?

HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.

At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.

Change is HERE. Apply Now.

As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable.

HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.