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We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.\nOur customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.\nWhy Apply\nMassive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.\nFounding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.\nEquity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.\nStrong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley - work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.\nResponsibilities\nProject and client management: Partner directly with the safety, alignment, and trust & safety teams at frontier AI labs - scoping their hardest data problems, translating them into deliverable programs, and driving revenue.\n\nManage expert teams: Recruit and lead specialized contributors - red teamers, security researchers, trust & safety practitioners, and domain risk experts - and hold a high bar on the quality of what they produce.\n\nShape how frontier models are made safe: Design the specifications behind adversarial datasets, jailbreak and attack taxonomies, refusal-boundary and over-refusal sets, and safety benchmarks that labs use to measure and improve model behavior.\n\nBuild the red teaming machinery: Stand up repeatable methodologies - human red team campaigns, automated attack generation, coverage tracking against harm taxonomies - rather than one-off deliverables.\n\nEnd-to-end execution: Own projects from first conversation through final delivery, in a fast-moving environment where the spec often does not exist yet.\n\nOperational impact: Support initiatives across building, analysis, coordination, and execution as we scale the safety practice.\n\nRequired Qualifications\n2+ years in AI safety, red teaming, trust & safety, adversarial ML, or security research; at a frontier AI lab, FAANG, top security firm, or equivalent.\n\nHands-on adversarial experience: jailbreaking or stress-testing frontier models, prompt injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty, CTFs, or trust & safety investigations and enforcement.\n\nFluency with how safety work is actually structured (harm taxonomies, evaluation design, safety frameworks and model policy).\n\nHigh agency and the ability to execute in ambiguity; comfort defining the problem before solving it.\n\nStrong writing. Much of this job is specifying risk precisely enough that fifty other people can execute against it.\n\nGenuine passion for AI and interest in entrepreneurship.\n\nDemonstrated track record of competitive success.\n\nStrong leadership and communication skills.\n\nPython proficiency and the ability to write production-quality code.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nPublished safety, alignment, or security research.\n\nTrack record in bug bounty, CTF, or model red teaming competitions.\n\nExperience building automated red teaming or eval pipelines.\n\nDepth in a high-consequence risk domain (cyber, bio, fraud and financial crime, child safety, influence operations).\n\nExperience using AI tools to automate workflows and build products.\n\nCompany Benefits (For Eligible Employees):\nHealth Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental\n\n401(k) with Employer Match\n\nDaily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend\n\nMonthly Wellness Stipend\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.\nWe comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. 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