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Lead, Frontier Red Team (Cyber)

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $485,000–$485,000🗓 2026-07-15 → 2026-07-31

Core

Lead a mission-driven research team to defend the world against advanced AI cybersecurity capabilities, focusing on steering the future of security in the age of frontier models.

Role type

Principal-level research lead (cybersecurity strategy & team management)

Builds

Frontier AI cybersecurity research programs, autonomous vulnerability patching frameworks, and purple-team simulation environments

Domain

Artificial Intelligence Safety & Frontier Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models | research | client delivery

Required skills

Strategic vision for AI security, team building and leadership, research program design, stakeholder engagement (government/public), technical translation of findings, resource marshaling

Preferred skills

Experience with AGI concepts, prior work in cybersecurity or AI safety, ability to execute at frontier lab speed

Technologies

Frontier AI models, autonomous agents, network simulation environments

Responsibilities

Oversee defensive cybersecurity vision, hire and lead world-class research team, design AGI cybersecurity research program, execute research at scale, collaborate with Product/Training/Policy teams, identify field partners, develop research communication strategy, identify critical strategic decisions

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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