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Research Engineer / Scientist, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $320,000–$320,000🗓 2026-04-07 → 2026-07-31

Core

Building tools, frameworks, and infrastructure to defend against advanced AI-enabled cyber threats and evaluate autonomous AI capabilities in security environments.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist (AI Safety & Cybersecurity)

Builds

Autonomous vulnerability discovery systems, malware detection frameworks, network hardening tools, and purple-team simulation environments.

Domain

AI Safety, Cybersecurity, Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | research

Required skills

Cybersecurity expertise, LLM-based agent research, Python software engineering, experimental design, cross-functional leadership

Preferred skills

Offensive security research, exploit development, CTF/bug bounty experience, security tool automation, policy stakeholder communication

Technologies

Python, LLMs, autonomous agents, network security tools

Responsibilities

Develop systems for autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation; design experiments to elicit AI cyber capabilities; build infrastructure for AI security evaluation; translate findings into policy demonstrations; collaborate with external security experts; set research strategy and roadmap.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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