Technical Lead, AI Benchmarking and Evaluation Research (Remote, ROU)

Requirements

  • Hands-on cybersecurity expertise in at least one area: malware analysis and reverse engineering, incident response and threat hunting, detection engineering, SOC operations
  • Demonstrated experience building evaluations, benchmarks, or datasets for AI or LLM systems with shareable artifacts
  • Strong Python and data tooling skills with production-quality evaluation code and ability to review others' code
  • Practical experience with LLMs and agentic systems including tool use, multi-step planning, sandboxing, and instrumentation/tracing of agent behavior
  • Minimum 2 years of technical leadership experience with a record of growing researchers and engineers while remaining hands-on
  • Ability to define, design, and standardize evaluation methodologies and reproducible testing pipelines, and defend them under scrutiny
  • Broad knowledge of cybersecurity landscape: attack techniques, defensive controls, and analyst workflows augmented by AI
  • Exceptional written and spoken communication skills to present findings and limitations to executives and researchers
  • Proven experience using AI technologies to improve decision-making, workflows, efficiency, and business outcomes

Nice to Haves

  • Published research or talks on AI evaluation, LLM judging, or AI security
  • Experience with adversarial testing or red teaming of AI systems and scoring agents based on observed side effects
  • Experience building LLM judges and measuring agreement with human experts
  • Experience with SOC platforms, SIEM/SOAR tooling, and detection engineering
  • Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and its relation to detection and response workflows
  • Relevant security certifications such as GREM, GCFA, GCIH, GCIA, OSCP or equivalent
  • Experience fine-tuning or distilling models on expert-labeled decision data

What You'll Be Doing

  • Design and build benchmark datasets for cybersecurity agent tasks including task definition, expert labeling, scoring rubrics, and release
  • Build and calibrate LLM-based and programmatic judges against expert labels, measure agreement, and publish disagreements
  • Create reproducible evaluation harnesses that capture agent actions and traces for defensible and comparable results
  • Run and publish ongoing scorecards of CrowdStrike agents and frontier models covering protection, correctness, and usefulness
  • Investigate and analyze failure modes of AI agents including causes and supporting evidence
  • Write internal research reports and external papers or talks establishing benchmark credibility
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of researchers and engineers; review their designs, labels, and code
  • Set strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for AI and agentic system evaluations across security use cases
  • Define and enforce evaluation methodologies and shared formats used across benchmarking and red teaming
  • Coordinate subject matter expert labeling with SOC, research, and malware teams ensuring quality standards
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and research to translate evaluation findings into pass/fail criteria and improvements
  • Communicate results clearly to both technical and executive audiences, including what was not tested

Perks and Benefits

  • Market leader in compensation and equity awards
  • Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
  • Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
  • Paid parental and adoption leaves
  • Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
  • Employee networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
  • Vibrant office culture with world-class amenities
  • Great Place to Work Certified™ globally
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