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Strategic Projects Lead, Red Team

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remote senior full-time $152,000-$190,000 USD San Francisco, CA; New York, NY

First indexed 3 Jun 2026

Description

We are hiring a Strategic Projects Lead to own day-to-day partnerships with frontier model developers. This hands-on role is for someone who is technically curious, comfortable with researchers, and operationally rigorous.

The team Red Team and Safety is a nimble function that stress-tests frontier AI. We partner with major model developers to generate adversarial data, run evaluations, and publish benchmarks across jailbreaks, prompt injection, agentic misuse, LLM-based cyber security, CBRN, political bias, and self-harm. Our work shapes how leading labs train their models and how governments and enterprises deploy them.

As a Strategic Projects Lead, you will:

  • Own a portfolio of frontier-lab partnerships day-to-day. Run customer conversations, scope new engagements, and grow accounts from one-off projects into ongoing scope.
  • Act as a credible subject-matter expert in customer conversations; explain adversarial methodology, vulnerability taxonomies, benchmark findings, and what they imply commercially, in language that lands with technical buyers.
  • Partner with Enterprise and Public Sector account teams to qualify and close opportunities where safety, red teaming, or LLM-based cyber security are part of the deal.
  • Coordinate delivery with research and operations leads. Make sure scope, capacity, and timelines line up before we commit, and unblock the team as engagements run.
  • Contribute to public benchmark launches. Help shape the framing, the rollout, and the narrative we take to customers and the field.
  • Feed signal back into the roadmap. Surface what customers are asking for, what is breaking, and what we should build next.

Ideally, you would have:

  • Working fluency in model behavior, adversarial ML, and AI safety, enough to hold a substantive conversation with researchers and ML engineers.
  • Experience managing technical accounts or partnerships, ideally with frontier AI labs, large enterprises, or federal agencies.
  • Genuine interest in AI safety, evidenced in prior work, writing, or research.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to translate between research and commercial audiences.
  • Operational rigor; you scope carefully, track commitments, and keep complex engagements moving.
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action.

Nice to haves:

  • 2+ years of relevant experience.
  • Hands-on red teaming, penetration testing, or adversarial ML experience.
  • Background at a frontier AI lab, AI policy organization, or national security agency.
  • Experience contributing to public benchmarks, evaluations, or research publications.
  • Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.
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