AI Security Graduate Program
The AI Security Graduate Program is about talents securing robust, ethical, and sustainable AI, within your organization. Together with partners, AI Sweden and Nexer Tech Talent cultivate Sweden's next generation of AI developers and implementers with expertise in AI security.
Take the chance to build security in AI from start, not as an afterthought.
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths
President, Dakota State University, Member of AI Labs Advisory Board at AI Sweden
Why a AI security graduate program?
Artificial Intelligence is becoming a cornerstone for the Swedish industry, the public sector, and society at large. But as adoption accelerates, so do the risks. Traditional cybersecurity focuses on protecting infrastructure, while AI Security is about ensuring that AI systems themselves behave safely, robustly, and ethically, even under manipulation or attack.
Today, AI is being developed and implemented at a faster pace than organizations build the capability to secure it. The result is increased vulnerability and a growing skills shortage.
The AI Security Graduate Program is the most ambitious talent program in AI security. It is engineered for organizations committed to acting proactively, rather than simply reacting to the inevitable.
For partners
Secure AI begins with the right talent
Through the AI Security Graduate Program, you can build critical AI security competence within your organisation. You gain access to talent for 12 months, working hands-on with your real challenges, in your environments. After the program, they transition into full-time roles with you, continuing to cultivate and spread expertise internally.
The program is designed to strengthen your long-term capability to build secure and resilient AI, and is based on research, advanced AI labs, and work on actual challenges. It's a result of collaboration between specialists and partners across both the private and public sectors, an and leading experts from both industry and academia.
For candidates
Work with the best on real-world challenges
As a candidate in the program you are employed as a consultant through Nexer, with the opportunity to transition to a permanent role at the host organisation after 12 months. Candidates applying to the program typically come from backgrounds such as: computer engineering, computer science, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, software development, mathematics or engineering physics.
Through the program, you divide your time between AI Sweden where you work with researchers and specialists, and the host organisation, building critical AI security competence.
Podcast: The role of talent programs as AI reshapes labor markets
[Episode in Swedish] As AI adoption accelerates, the focus on the labor market shifts from high-volume recruitment to strategic specialized expertise. In AI Sweden's latest podcast episode, the discussion covers how targeted talent programs are a very effective way to attract, develop, and retain the next generation of AI expertise. A task that requires both commitment and courageous leadership.
Guests: Elin Ogéus, Nexer Tech Talent and Sofia Hedén, AI Sweden
Program experts and advisors
Dr. Robert Bridges
Research scientist, AI Sweden
Dr. Bridges is a mathematician and researcher at AI Sweden, with extensive experience from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States, where he worked on advanced research for the US Department of Energy.
He has broad expertise in differential privacy for machine learning, AI applications in healthcare, reverse engineering of automotive CAN systems, anomaly detection and enterprise network security.
With experience from some of the world’s most high-security environments, Dr. Bridges contributes deep competence in AI security, model robustness and method development, and is a key resource in AI Sweden’s work to strengthen Sweden’s ability to develop safe and reliable AI.
Dr. José-Marie Griffiths
President, Dakota State University
Member of AI Labs Advisory Board at AI Sweden
Dr. Griffiths is the President of Dakota State University and one of the United States’ most experienced leaders in technology, research and higher education. She has held several national appointments, including on the National Science Board and the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, where she leads work on developing the future AI talent pipeline.
Dr. Griffiths has led major projects for US government agencies such as NASA, the National Science Foundation and defence and intelligence organisations, as well as for global companies including IBM and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Mary Bell
Dean, The Beacom College of Computer & Cyber Sciences
Mary Bell is the Dean of The Beacom College of Computer and Cyber Sciences at Dakota State University, and a central driving force behind the development of the university’s advanced programmes in AI, cybersecurity and quantum technologies.
She leads the creation of new academic programmes, strengthens research collaborations, and builds environments where students work directly with real-world technical challenges.
Bell has a long career within the US defence and education sectors, including serving as a professor at the National Defense University and as a leader in the US Army with extensive experience in aviation and intelligence operations. Today, she is a key force behind DSU’s ambition to become a leading institution in cyber sciences, with a focus on innovation, partnerships and the technical competencies of the future.
Dr. Mats Nordlund
Director of AI Labs, AI Sweden
Dr. Nordlund has been a driving force behind the establishment of AI Sweden and has a broad background spanning both academia and industry. He has previously served as Director of Technology, Strategy and Technology Acquisition at Saab Group, VP of R&D at Emerson Process Management – Level and Marine, and Head of Advanced Graduate Programmes at Zenseact, a subsidiary of Volvo Cars.
Questions and application
This graduate program is managed by Nexer Tech Talent. Applications, questions about engagement and more information can be found at their AI Security Graduate Program page.
