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Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and evaluate system-level controls and oversight mechanisms to ensure AI agents act safely and autonomously in real environments.

Role type

Senior IC researcher (AI safety, agent control, and system security)

Builds

Production-ready oversight systems, sandboxing solutions, and threat models for agentic workflows

Domain

Frontier AI safety, agent control, and system security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

systems security instincts, threat modeling, experimental infrastructure design, evaluation design, agent behavior analysis, isolation boundary reasoning

Preferred skills

AI control background, security background, experience with red-teaming agentic systems

Technologies

sandboxing, process isolation, permission boundaries, AI harnesses

Responsibilities

Design and build system-level controls for agent actions; Red-team end-to-end agentic systems to measure control effectiveness; Improve safety–productivity tradeoffs by reducing missed harmful actions and latency; Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize AI controls

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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