Gray Swan AI
Head of Cyber Safety
$230K–$280K
Remote (U.S. Only) · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 12, 2026
- Experience
- No specific number of years stated; relevant expertise and experience may come through industry, research, or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates.
About the job
Leads Gray Swan AI’s cyber safety capability, directing frontier-model security evaluations and building scalable benchmarks, defenses, and evaluation infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Lead adversarial evaluations of frontier AI systems for offensive cyber capabilities and develop evolving cyber harm taxonomies.
- Partner with machine learning engineers to build benchmarks, classifiers, guardrails, detection systems, and evaluation infrastructure; advise on security risks and mitigations.
- Build and lead a cybersecurity team, establish evaluation processes, and represent the company with AI labs and security communities.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in offensive cybersecurity, vulnerability research, exploit development, penetration testing, malware analysis, reverse engineering, or a related field.
- Significant experience assessing advanced cyber threats, offensive tooling, or AI-enabled cyber capabilities.
- Hands-on experience with adversarial evaluations, AI red-teaming, LLM security research, or evaluation datasets for frontier AI systems.
- Ability to work across cybersecurity research, AI safety, and machine learning engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience developing machine learning models, AI security classifiers, or automated cyber detection systems.
- Experience red-teaming frontier language models, jailbreaking, prompt injection research, or agentic AI evaluations.
Pay
$230,000 - $280,000 (base salary); $230K – $280K (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Rust
AI focus
Evaluates frontier AI systems for offensive cyber capabilities and develops benchmarks, safety infrastructure, guardrails, classifiers, and automated defenses.
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