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As misalignment incidents become more extreme and confidential information about models and frontier AI labs becomes more valuable, we expect to be under increasingly intense pressure from external actors and internal agents.\nAs METR’s CISO, you will own METR’s overall security posture, proactively planning against future threats and ensuring our security strategy grows as the organization does. This includes managing penetration testing, threat modeling, incident investigation and response, and preventing our internal agents from undermining our security posture, covering both technical and administrative security. This role does not involve building or managing a large engineering team, although you will be working closely with our platform, infrastructure, and operations teams.\nWe expect this role to be essential as METR scales - our values, brand and mission requirements imply taking security and confidentiality very seriously. We must be justifiably viewed as secure, professional, and reliable, and are willing to impose costly actions on our staff to achieve this.\nWhat this role looks like\nSetting organizational strategy: You will set our security roadmap and our security culture, consolidating ownership of security areas that today are spread across teams and filling gaps that currently have no owner.\n\nAdvising METR leadership, engineering and operations: You will advise on the security implications of new partnerships, evaluation programs, and model access arrangements before commitments are made.\n\nOwning incident response, red teaming and pen testing. You will lead these efforts across METR, including both computer and people security.\n\nRequired Skills\nDeep security background. You’ve been accountable for an org’s security posture or led high-stakes security engagements in the past, including being part of or leading an IR team. Experience in an industry handling highly sensitive data (e.g., defense, healthcare) is especially desirable.\n\nThreat modeling and red teaming experience. You can reason about defending against both insiders and sophisticated, well-resourced adversaries.\n\nExcellent communication. You are comfortable explaining complex threat models and policies to executive leadership, and to researchers across a growing organization.\n\nMission-aligned. You care deeply about METR’s mission of investigating catastrophic risks for AI.\n\nNice-to-haves\nBuilt a security team from scratch (first security hire or founding CISO).\n\nLed incident response end to end, including decision-making and communication to stakeholders.\n\nExperience securing AI/ML systems or agent infrastructure.\n\nFamiliarity with the tooling in our environment: DataDog, Kubernetes, CrowdStrike Falcon, Okta, Tailscale, Pulumi, PostgreSQL.\n\nOur culture\nMETR is a mission-driven organization. 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