AfterQuery
Strategic Projects Lead - AI Safety
$150K–$225K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; experience at a frontier AI lab, FAANG, top security firm, or equivalent.
About the job
Leads client-facing AI safety projects, managing expert teams and designing data, evaluations, and red-teaming methods to help frontier AI labs assess and improve model safety.
What you'll do
- Scope client safety and data problems, manage delivery from initial discussion through final output, and drive revenue.
- Recruit and lead specialist contributors, ensuring high-quality work.
- Design safety datasets, benchmarks, taxonomies, and repeatable human and automated red-teaming methodologies.
What they ask for
- 2+ years in AI safety, red teaming, trust & safety, adversarial ML, or security research, at a frontier AI lab, FAANG, top security firm, or equivalent.
- Hands-on adversarial experience, such as model jailbreaking, prompt injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty, CTFs, or trust & safety investigations.
- Fluency in harm taxonomies, evaluation design, safety frameworks, and model policy.
- Python proficiency and ability to write production-quality code.
Nice to have
- Published safety, alignment, or security research; or success in bug bounty, CTF, or model red-teaming competitions.
- Experience building automated red-teaming or evaluation pipelines, working in a high-consequence risk domain, or using AI tools to automate workflows and build products.
Pay
$150K – $225K (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Develops adversarial datasets, jailbreak and attack taxonomies, refusal-boundary and over-refusal sets, safety benchmarks, and repeatable human and automated red-teaming methods for frontier models.
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