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We are growing our cybersecurity team and looking for someone who can turn practical security problems into environments where AI agents can investigate, act, and learn.\nWe recently released CWE-bench, a defensive cybersecurity benchmark with 100 held-out audit-and-patch tasks across 54 weakness types. Agents must find and fix vulnerabilities in real codebases, with checks that confirm the vulnerability is resolved and existing functionality still works. You will help build what comes next: richer cybersecurity environments, realistic tasks, and reliable ways to measure whether agents succeed.\nYou will own work from the initial security scenario through the runnable environment, task instructions, reference solution, and verifier. We are looking for hands-on security knowledge, strong programming skills, and curiosity about how AI agents fail.\nDeep cybersecurity expertise is enough to get started-you do not need prior AI or machine-learning experience. If you know how to investigate vulnerabilities, reason about security failures, and verify that a fix works, we want to hear from you. We will teach you our AI tooling and evaluation workflows.\nWhat you will do\nBuild cybersecurity environments. Create isolated, reproducible environments with real repositories, applications, services, logs, and access controls. Make them straightforward to launch, reset, and evaluate at scale.\n\nTurn security work into tasks. Design scenarios around vulnerability discovery and remediation, application and API security, authentication and authorization, incident investigation, and system hardening. Define what the agent knows, which tools it can use, and what it must accomplish.\n\nDevelop reference solutions and verifiers. Reproduce the underlying issue, implement a valid solution, and write checks that distinguish a real fix from a superficial workaround. Verify that attacks fail after remediation while legitimate behavior continues to work.\n\nTest the tests. Challenge graders with incomplete fixes, disabled features, hard-coded answers, and other shortcuts. Keep hidden solutions and test data out of the agent's environment, and separate genuine model failures from broken infrastructure.\n\nRun and analyze agents. Evaluate frontier models, inspect their tool calls and code changes, and explain where their security reasoning or execution breaks down. Use those findings to improve task coverage and difficulty.\n\nContribute to benchmarks and research. Work with researchers and engineers to turn strong environments into evaluation suites and training data. Review other contributors' tasks and help document results for future releases.\n\nWho we are looking for\nPractical depth in at least one area of cybersecurity, such as application security, vulnerability research, penetration testing, systems security, cloud security, or incident response. Evidence can come from internships, research, open-source work, bug bounties, CTFs, or independent projects.\n\nThe ability to read unfamiliar code, reproduce a security issue, understand its root cause, and implement or assess a fix.\n\nStrong programming skills in Python and at least one language used in the systems you investigate, such as C/C++, Go, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Rust.\n\nComfort with Linux, Git, containers, debugging, and automated testing.\n\nClear technical writing and careful judgment about what an evaluation does and does not demonstrate. 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