Principal AI Research Scientist (Cybersecurity)

Location: Ramat Gan, Israel; Israel or the UK

Company

hirify.global is a trust, safety, and security company focused on protecting AI systems, online platforms, and communicative technologies across the AI lifecycle.

What you will do

• Conduct hands-on research in frontier AI models, reasoning, agents, and multimodal systems.
• Design and iterate on AI benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and experimental pipelines.
• Execute rapid research cycles from hypotheses and experiments to prototypes and validated findings.
• Identify model limitations, evaluation gaps, and emerging research opportunities.
• Work with customers and technical stakeholders to translate complex challenges into actionable research.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to turn research findings into practical solutions.

Requirements

• PhD or MSc in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field, with strong relevant research experience.
• Strong publication record at leading AI/ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or ACL.
• Advanced Python and PyTorch skills, with experience building and evaluating complex AI systems.
• Ability to independently design, implement, and execute research experiments within short development cycles.
• Deep understanding of LLMs, foundation models, benchmarking, and evaluation methodologies.
• Strong analytical and communication skills for a fast-paced, customer-driven research environment.

Nice to have

• Experience at frontier AI labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind.
• Experience applying AI to cybersecurity, including autonomous security agents, vulnerability research, penetration-testing automation, or security operations.
• Experience with AI security, LLM red teaming, adversarial machine learning, prompt injection, or agentic AI security.
• Familiarity with CTFs, sandboxed exploitation environments, code analysis, and security testing frameworks.
• Experience developing cybersecurity benchmarks or evaluating frontier models on complex security tasks.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced research environment focused on practical, high-impact outcomes.
• Work directly with customers, engineering teams, and product stakeholders.
• Contribute to AI safety and security solutions used across frontier model labs, enterprises, and online platforms.