Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead frontier AI safety research spanning responsible AI, trust and safety, model evaluation, adversarial robustness, and agentic safety. Design benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, red-teaming methods, and safety research for text, image, multimodal, and autonomous systems. Publish research, collaborate with leading AI labs and academic institutions, advise enterprise clients, translate findings into safety products, and mentor researchers and engineers.

Conduct hands-on research on frontier AI models, reasoning, agents, and multimodal systems. Design benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and experimental pipelines; rapidly develop prototypes, run experiments, identify model limitations, and deliver actionable findings. Collaborate with customers, engineering, and product teams to address complex research challenges. Preferred expertise includes AI cybersecurity, autonomous security agents, vulnerability research, LLM red teaming, adversarial machine learning, prompt injection, and agentic AI security.

Serve as the senior technical front line for frontier AI lab clients in the Bay Area. Lead technical discovery, RFPs, solution scoping, client meetings, events, and technical discussions with engineering and research teams. Build the Valley AI and security community, represent the company publicly, translate market signals into research and product strategy, and help establish the company’s regional presence. Partner with sales on technical wins while influencing AI security research, product direction, and local hiring.

Own top-of-funnel outbound and inbound prospecting to generate qualified meetings with frontier AI labs, GenAI-native companies, and hyperscalers. Build outreach sequences, cold call and email prospects, collaborate with Account Executives, and refine playbooks and sales processes to drive pipeline and conversions.

Own full sales cycle for GenAI customers, engaging senior product, research, and safety stakeholders. Position and sell AI safety, red teaming, model evaluation, and post-training data services. Scope pre-sales, shape proposals with solutions teams, drive pricing and negotiations, and maintain accurate pipeline forecasting.

Lead frontier AI safety research focused on CBRNE and cybersecurity risks. Responsibilities include managing red-team datasets, evaluation protocols, technical risk reports, QA reviews, expert teams, client engagements, threat modeling, and architecture-level mitigation recommendations across text, vision, and audio systems.