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Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production and monitors billions of agent tokens per month across engineering teams at agent-building scale-ups and enterprise.\nSecurity exists at Apollo to safeguard the trust frontier labs place in us and to enable that research. Our own team uses AI agents extensively across its work, which makes Apollo both a target and a testbed. We’re hiring AI Security Researchers to join the Infra & Security Team.\nIn this role, you will identify, research and remediate both conventional threats and the novel risks introduced by AI agents that can affect Apollo and our mission. You will redefine and work on a new class of insider risk that didn’t exist before.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nHold responsibility for the security of Apollo’s internal surfaces. Red-team internal software, infrastructure, and AI agent access controls/monitoring. Build realistic attack trajectories.\n\nDesign solutions for novel or emerging threats in the AI security space, where no existing playbook applies. Set the standard for our security posture in these areas.\n\nTrack adversary tactics, techniques, and campaigns relevant to Apollo's threat landscape, and translate that intelligence into tuned, high-signal detections.\n\nOwn each finding through to a deployed fix. Build and roll out durable controls: checks, tests, defaults, detections. Socialise them, work with engineers to implement, and hold remediation to a high bar.\n\nKEY REQUIREMENTS\nMust haves\n5+ years in security roles in a hands-on technical capacity (not purely GRC/compliance). You'd need to be able to think structurally about threat modelling and failure modes. You need to be able to read code, understand infrastructure, and evaluate technical controls.\n\nDirect experience with offensive security. Threat modelling, red teaming, etc. Knowledge of application or cloud. Ideally you owned or significantly contributed to the security posture of an organisation or product that handles sensitive customer data.\n\nEngineering mindset. You treat security as an engineering problem. You can translate your findings into fixes and controls, such as paved roads, custom detection rules, adversarial test suites, CI/CD integrations. You prioritize automation and systems-level thinking to scale security, and you are comfortable leveraging AI to accelerate development.\n\nStartup pace. You are excited about a fast-moving environment, comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities, and willing to grind when it matters.\n\nStrong written communication. This role produces a lot of artifacts (threat models, reports, failure mode documentation) and they need to be clear and precise.\n\nNice to haves\nExperience with AI/ML systems security or LLM security.\n\nDetection engineering, SOC, or incident analysis experience.\n\nFamiliarity with insider threat programs or insider risk frameworks.\n\nExplicitly not required\nFormal AI safety research background. We need security practitioners who can learn the AI safety context, not AI safety researchers who need to learn security.\n\nWe want to emphasize that people who feel they don’t fulfill all of these characteristics but think they would be a good fit for the position, nonetheless, are strongly encouraged to apply.\nREPRESENTATIVE PROJECTS\nRed-team Apollo's agent sandboxes used for evals: Test whether an agent can escape isolation, exfiltrate data, detect it's being evaluated, or otherwise undermine the validity of eval results. Your findings will harden the sandbox infrastructure the research team depends on to trust its own eval results.\n\nComprehensive coding agent threat model: Map every way a coding agent with internal access: credentials, code, network, execution ability, could attack Apollo, benchmarked against what a human insider with the same access could do.\n\nAs well as the representative projects from the Security Engineer role\nBENEFITS\nThis role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.\n\nSalary: San Francisco: $214,000 - $280,000; London: £144,000 - £189,000. We will be looking to meaningfully raise salaries soon.\n\nOur engineers effectively have an unlimited token budget. If a better result costs more compute, use it.\n\nFlexible work hours and schedule\n\nUnlimited vacation\n\nUnlimited sick leave\n\nUp to 6 months of paid parental leave\n\nComprehensive health, dental and vision insurance\n\nRetirement savings with competitive employer matching (e.g. 401(k) for US employees)\n\nLunch, dinner, and snacks are provided for all employees on workdays\n\nPaid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences\n\nA yearly $1,000 (USD) professional development budget\n\nRelocation support and visa fees (if applicable)\n\nLOGISTICS\nTime Allocation: Full-time\n\nLocation: This is an in-person role working out of our London or San Francisco office. We offer flexible working hours and some wfh arrangements.\n\nVisa sponsorship: We sponsor visas in both the UK and US. 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