CareerPlan

Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL

San Francisco, CAFull-time$500k–$850k2026-11-08 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Develop novel reinforcement learning approaches for defensive cybersecurity, including secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and safe AI model training.

Role type

Research Engineer (Cybersecurity RL)

Builds

RL environments, experiments, evaluations, and production training runs for AI safety

Domain

Cybersecurity + Reinforcement Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

cybersecurity research, machine learning, software engineering, RL environment design, experiment design, secure coding, vulnerability remediation

Preferred skills

security engineering, fuzzing, detection and response, CTF competitions, cyber ranges, academic research in cybersecurity, LLM training methodologies

Technologies

RL environments, LLM training frameworks, fuzzing tools, cyber range platforms

Responsibilities

Design and implement RL environments for cybersecurity tasks, conduct experiments and evaluations, deliver work into production training runs, collaborate with researchers and cybersecurity specialists

Seniority

Mid-to-Senior, hands-on IC