Raydar
Strategic Projects Lead- AI Safety
$130K–$450K
San Francisco, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years; exceptional professional experience may substitute for the stated degree requirement.
- Education
- Degree from a top-tier university in the United States, Canada, or Europe, unless professional experience is exceptional.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa transfers such as OPT and H-1B transfers may be considered. Exceptional candidates may receive other sponsorship support, but new H-1B petitions are not available.
About the job
Leads client-facing AI safety projects for frontier AI labs, from designing adversarial evaluations and datasets through delivery, while also supporting company-wide initiatives.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver adversarial datasets, red-teaming programs, and safety benchmarks with AI labs.
- Manage client relationships, project execution, and teams of subject-matter experts.
- Collaborate on AI research, evaluation, data infrastructure, and cross-functional company initiatives.
What they ask for
- 2+ years in AI safety, red teaming, trust and safety, adversarial machine learning, security research, or a related field.
- Hands-on adversarial experience, such as jailbreaking models, prompt-injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty programs, CTFs, or trust-and-safety investigations.
- Experience at a frontier AI lab, major technology company, leading security firm, or equivalent high-caliber environment.
- Degree from a top-tier university in the United States, Canada, or Europe, unless professional experience is exceptional.
Pay
$130,000-$150,000 USD base salary; $260,000-$450,000 USD total compensation
AI focus
AI safety work involving adversarial datasets, red-teaming, safety benchmarks, AI research, and evaluation.
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