Idler
Offensive Security RL Researcher
$200K–$500K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of professional cybersecurity experience.
About the job
Leads Idler’s cybersecurity evaluation and environment work, building production systems, managing expert reviewers, and working with frontier AI labs to understand and sell them cybersecurity data.
What you'll do
- Set the cybersecurity eval and environment roadmap and prioritize engineering resources.
- Build and operate production systems that create cybersecurity environments; recruit and manage part-time expert reviewers.
- Work with frontier AI lab researchers to understand their needs and sell them relevant environments.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional cybersecurity experience and a track record placing in the top 5% of peers by reputation.
- Deep hands-on experience in at least one of web app pentesting, bug bounty hunting, vulnerability/zero-day research, hacking agents, or AI security.
- Strong connections within the security community.
- Ability to write and ship production code and strong written communication.
Nice to have
- Public bug bounty record, live-hacking-event invitations, Pwn2Own placements, or published original research.
- Experience managing or mentoring security researchers, grading security work beyond pass/fail, or building research tools and automation.
Pay
$200K–$500K USD base salary; $200K – $500K USD (compensation; offers equity)
Tools
Python, TypeScript
AI focus
Builds cybersecurity evaluations and environments for frontier AI labs and may sponsor and co-publish AI security research.
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