We are looking for creative minds! Are you in?

As part of our Brasov team we will help you build the foundation of your professional and personal development. During your time with us, you'll be able to see how digitalization works in the real world. Our program offers you the ideal start in your career and the chance to become our colleague at Siemens Romania R&D.

1) What you should know:

• Differences between centralized training and federated learning; roles such as clients, aggregators/servers, training rounds, and model updates.
• Basics of privacy and threat modeling: honest-but-curious vs malicious adversaries.
• Core privacy concepts: identifiability, membership disclosure, attribute inference, data leakage.
• The fundamental trade-off: privacy vs utility vs system performance.

2) What you should learn:

• Common attacks in federated/decentralized learning (i.e.):
• Membership inference - determining whether a sample was part of training.
• Attribute inference - inferring sensitive features from model updates.
• Gradient inversion / reconstruction attacks - recovering training data from gradients.
• Poisoning attacks.
• Fundamentals of Differential Privacy (DP).
• What Secure Aggregation and encryption protect -- and their limitations in the context of decentralized training.

3) What you should apply:

• Building reproducible experiments: fixed seeds, dependency control, configuration management, and experiment tracking.
• Evaluating model utility (accuracy, F1, AUC), convergence behavior, and the performance impact of privacy mechanisms.
• Running adversarial simulations, such as membership inference pipelines or gradient reconstruction attempts (when feasible).
• Ablation studies exploring how results change with the privacy enhancing layers.

This is a part-time, paid internship role available for students in Brasov, Romania.

We value your unique identity and perspective, recognizing that our strength comes from the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and thoughts of our team members. We are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. We also support you in your personal and professional journey by providing resources to help you thrive. Come bring your authentic self and transform the everyday with us.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.