Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks (AI)

TL;DR

Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks (AI): Designing and implementing an end-to-end mitigation stack to reduce severe cyber misuse across hirify.global’s products with an accent on prevention, monitoring, detection, and enforcement. Focus on evaluating technical trade-offs, collaborating with threat modeling partners, and executing rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows against evolving AI threats.

Location: San Francisco, US

Salary: $295,000–$445,000

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Design and implement mitigation components for model-enabled cybersecurity misuse.
• Integrate safeguards across product surfaces in partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs within the cybersecurity risk domain and propose pragmatic solutions.
• Collaborate closely with risk and threat modeling partners on mitigation design.
• Execute rigorous testing and red-teaming workflows to stress-test the mitigation stack.

Requirements

• Passion for AI safety and motivation to make cutting-edge AI models safer for real-world use.
• Demonstrated experience in deep learning and transformer models.
• Proficiency with frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.
• Familiarity with methods for training and fine-tuning large language models.
• Significant experience designing and deploying technical safeguards for abuse prevention, detection, and enforcement at scale.

Nice to have

• Background knowledge in cybersecurity or adjacent fields.

Culture & Benefits

• Be part of a Safety Systems organization ensuring responsible development and deployment of capable AI models.
• Contribute to building protections that remain robust as products, model capabilities, and attacker behaviors evolve.
• Work in a fast-paced, exciting environment with far-reaching importance for the company and society.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across research, security, policy, product, and engineering.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer valuing diverse perspectives, voices, and experiences.