This is an on-site role in San Francisco for a highly driven operator who can own demanding AI safety projects from client relationship through delivery. The team typically works in the office six days per week and may work 60+ hours during intense periods.
What you'll do
• Partner directly with leading AI labs to design and deliver adversarial datasets, red-teaming programs, and safety benchmarks.
• Own client relationships and project execution end to end, delivering high-quality work against tight timelines.
• Lead teams of subject-matter experts across software engineering, finance, science, security, and other domains.
• Collaborate with internal teams on advanced AI research, evaluation, and data-infrastructure initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional company initiatives as an early team member and support operational priorities where needed.
Requirements
• 2+ years of experience in AI safety, red teaming, trust and safety, adversarial machine learning, security research, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on adversarial experience such as jailbreaking or stress-testing frontier models, prompt-injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty programs, CTFs, or trust-and-safety investigations and enforcement.
• Experience at a frontier AI lab, major technology company, leading security firm, or an equivalent high-caliber environment.
• Degree from a top-tier university in the United States, Canada, or Europe, unless professional experience is exceptional.
• Strong communication and client-management skills, with high agency and a track record of owning projects end to end.
• Comfort operating in a high-intensity environment such as management consulting, investment banking, a fast-paced startup, or another demanding client-facing setting.
• Willingness to work on site in San Francisco, typically six days per week, and to work 60+ hours when needed.
Benefits
• Base salary: $130,000-$150,000.
• Public total compensation range: $260,000-$450,000, including bonus and meaningful equity.
• Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.
• Visa transfers such as OPT and H-1B transfers may be considered. Exceptional candidates may receive other sponsorship support, but new H-1B petitions are not available.
• In-person final-stage logistics are covered.
