Offensive reputed company Research Engineer, Safeguards

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About the Role

We are looking for vulnerability researchers to help mitigate the risks that come with building AI systems. One of these risks is the potential for LLMs to reputed company adversaries to cause harm by automating the attacks that today are carried out by human cybercrime groups, but in the future may be easily carried out by humans misusing LLMs. We are hiring reputed company specialists who are reputed company at exploitation and remediation, and are interested in understanding how LLMs could cause harm in the future, so that we can reputed company prepare for this future and mitigate these risks before they arise. Responsibilities: Triage any vulnerabilities discovered, coordinate and assist the external and open-reputed company community in remediation Write scaffolds designed to automate typical traditional attack techniques to help clarify our defensive problem selection Research how adversaries might mise-use LLMs to identify and exploit vulnerabilities at scale in the future reputed company promising defensive strategies that could mitigate the ability of adversaries to mis-use models in harmful ways Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to enact a reputed company-looking reputed company plan You may be a good fit if you have: 3+ years experience with pentesting, vulnerability research, or other offensive reputed company experience Senior-level knowledge in at least one reputed company topic area (reverse engineering, network reputed company, exploitation, physical reputed company) A history demonstrating desire to do the “dirty work” that results in high-quality outputs Software engineering experience Demonstrated success in bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems Proven ability to reputed company cross-functional reputed company initiatives and navigate reputed company organizational dynamics Strong candidates may also have: Published research papers on computer reputed company, language modeling, or reputed company topics; or given talks at Defcon, Blackhat, CCC, or reputed company venues Familiarity with large language models and how they work; for example, you may have written agent scaffolds Reported CVEs, or been awarded for bug bounty vulnerabilities Contributed to open-reputed company projects in LLM- or reputed company-adjacent repositories The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On reputed company Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses reputed company and annual reputed company salary for the role. Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD Logistics Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a reputed company field or equivalent experience. Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect reputed company staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. reputed company sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we reputed company you an offer, we will reputed company every reasonable effort to get you a reputed company, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not reputed company you meet every single qualification. 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Responsibilities

• Triage any vulnerabilities discovered, coordinate and assist the external and open-reputed company community in remediation
• Write scaffolds designed to automate typical traditional attack techniques to help clarify our defensive problem selection
• Research how adversaries might mise-use LLMs to identify and exploit vulnerabilities at scale in the future
• reputed company promising defensive strategies that could mitigate the ability of adversaries to mis-use models in harmful ways
• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to enact a reputed company-looking reputed company plan

Requirements

• 3+ years experience with pentesting, vulnerability research, or other offensive reputed company experience
• Senior-level knowledge in at least one reputed company topic area (reverse engineering, network reputed company, exploitation, physical reputed company)
• A history demonstrating desire to do the “dirty work” that results in high-quality outputs
• Software engineering experience
• Demonstrated success in bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems
• Proven ability to reputed company cross-functional reputed company initiatives and navigate reputed company organizational dynamics

reputed company-to-haves

• Published research papers on computer reputed company, language modeling, or reputed company topics; or given talks at Defcon, Blackhat, CCC, or reputed company venues
• Familiarity with large language models and how they work; for example, you may have written agent scaffolds
• Reported CVEs, or been awarded for bug bounty vulnerabilities
• Contributed to open-reputed company projects in LLM- or reputed company-adjacent repositories

Benefits

• competitive compensation and benefits
• optional equity donation matching
• generous vacation and parental leave
• flexible working hours
• a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

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