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Research Engineer, AI Security

San FranciscoFull-time2026-11-02 → 2026-11-08
On-site

Core

Improve the judgment, reasoning, and reliability of AI security agents that continuously attack and validate production systems.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (AI Security)

Builds

AI security agents, evaluation frameworks, and production-grade security tools

Domain

AI Security / LLM Agents / Cybersecurity

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

LLM-based agent development, empirical evaluation design, Python/TypeScript/Go, LLM security (prompt injection, jailbreaks), system reasoning

Preferred skills

ML research background, offensive security (red teaming, bug bounty), reinforcement learning, graph data models

Technologies

Python, TypeScript, Go, LLMs, graph databases

Responsibilities

Design experiments and benchmarks to evaluate agent performance; tune models and prompts for cost/latency/quality; harden agents against prompt injection and data exfiltration; build tools for verification and self-checks at scale; analyze customer engagement data to fix reasoning failures

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC