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They recently grew from under twenty people to more than fifty in a matter of months and have reached a nine-figure revenue run rate. Quality is their core differentiator, and they are rapidly expanding into new domains.\nThe Opportunity\nAs the AI Safety & Red Teaming Lead, you will do hands-on adversarial work that directly shapes how foundation models behave. You will design the adversarial datasets and safety benchmarks that frontier labs use to improve their models, partnering directly with those labs on AI safety and model behavior.\nThis is a hands-on, IC-plus-lead seat for someone who has actually broken models, not just written about safety. 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