AI Security Researcher (AI Security)

Location: In-person role based in the London or San Francisco office; some work-from-home arrangements are available. Visa sponsorship is available in the UK and US.

Salary: San Francisco $214,000–$280,000; London £144,000–£188,000.

Company

hirify.global studies risks from advanced AI systems, collaborates with frontier AI companies, and builds security products for coding agents.

What you will do

• Own the security of Apollo’s internal software, infrastructure, and AI-agent access controls and monitoring.
• Red-team internal systems and agent sandboxes, developing realistic attack trajectories and testing isolation, data exfiltration, and evaluation integrity.
• Design security solutions for novel and emerging AI-agent threats where established playbooks do not apply.
• Track adversary tactics and translate threat intelligence into high-signal detections.
• Own findings through remediation by designing and deploying checks, tests, defaults, detection rules, and CI/CD integrations.
• Build comprehensive threat models for coding agents with credentials, code, network, and execution access.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on technical security experience, excluding purely GRC or compliance work.
• Direct offensive-security experience, including threat modeling or red teaming, with application or cloud security knowledge.
• Ability to read code, understand infrastructure, evaluate technical controls, and translate findings into engineering fixes.
• Engineering mindset with an emphasis on automation, systems-level thinking, detection rules, adversarial test suites, and CI/CD integrations.
• Strong written communication for producing clear threat models, reports, and failure-mode documentation.
• Comfort working at startup pace with ambiguity, changing priorities, and demanding situations.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/ML systems security or LLM security.
• Detection engineering, SOC, or incident analysis experience.
• Familiarity with insider-threat programs or insider-risk frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and schedule within an in-person office-based role.
• Unlimited vacation and sick leave.
• Up to six months of paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus competitive retirement matching, including 401(k) for US employees.
• Relocation support and visa fees where applicable.
• Paid work trips, staff retreats, relevant conferences, and a $1,000 annual professional-development budget.

Hiring process

• Screening interview, followed by a 2–3 hour take-home test.
• Three technical interviews and a final interview with the CEO.
• No general LeetCode-style coding interview; AI tools may be used for the take-home assignment.