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AIUC seeks a founder-type operator to help build standards and insurance for frontier AI. The role involves working directly with company leadership on a high-impact, fast-moving mission focused on AI trust, risk, security, and underwriting. Candidates should be resilient, action-oriented, detail-focused, candid, dependable, and comfortable tackling ambiguous challenges. The company offers annual compensation, significant equity, benefits, visa sponsorship, relocation support, and meals.

Owns full-cycle recruiting for engineering and research roles, partnering with hiring managers and founders to define candidate profiles, source passive talent, screen candidates, manage agencies, close offers, and build technical talent pipelines. The role focuses on hiring engineers and specialists in AI evaluations, security, research, and forward-deployed engineering while using funnel data, talent mapping, events, and networks to improve recruiting outcomes.

Manage AIUC’s San Francisco office, including facilities, vendors, supplies, workplace technology, onboarding and offboarding, access management, payroll coordination, compliance administration, and office systems. Build SOPs, inventories, calendars, and checklists to make operations scalable and reliable. The role requires hands-on IT and hardware support, strong organization, vendor management, and in-person work five days per week.

Own security end to end as AIUC’s first security hire, securing its product, agent evaluation platform, infrastructure, corporate systems, vendors, data, and customer environments. Build sandboxing, credential isolation, least-privilege access, detection, logging, incident response, and automated security controls. Investigate emerging agent attacks, turn research into production defenses, support customer security reviews, and contribute findings to AIUC-1 standards and its CISO consortium.

Own AIUC’s security function as the founding security lead. Develop and evolve AI agent security standards, address emerging threats, build security infrastructure and organizational controls, establish policies and incident response, advise enterprise clients, and represent AIUC externally. The role combines strategic, technical, operational, and client-facing responsibilities, requiring deep security expertise, strong communication skills, and knowledge of AI vendor security evaluation.

Lead product strategy and execution for AIUC-1, an AI agent certification product. Partner with founders to set priorities, test hypotheses, analyze product data, write specifications, coordinate engineering, delivery, and go-to-market teams, remove blockers, and drive the product to general availability and expansion into new agent types. Over time, assume broader product ownership and build the product function.

Own AIUC’s strategic finance, board reporting, financial planning, and financial controls while building the operational infrastructure needed for rapid growth. Responsibilities include centralizing vendor spend, insourcing core operations, supporting recruiting and people operations, identifying efficiency improvements, and creating durable systems and processes. The role requires a highly analytical generalist who can structure ambiguous problems, execute quickly, and improve organizational effectiveness.

Owns post-certification customer success for AIUC-1, helping customers use certification to accelerate enterprise sales, generate ROI stories, secure marketing placements, and drive renewals and upsells. Builds executive relationships, manages announcements and customer activations, supports sales calls and security reviews, develops enablement materials, and creates repeatable success processes. The role also channels customer feedback to Product and requires commercial ownership, cross-functional execution, and team leadership.

Conduct frontier AI research on model capabilities, safety, evaluations, security, and governance. Independently design and maintain research code and experiment pipelines, implement and adapt ML papers, develop experiments from ambiguous questions, publish findings, and help shape AIUC’s public research agenda and strategic direction.

Own customer integrations for AI agent evaluations from scoping through delivery. Read API documentation, manage credentials, build custom integrations, run evaluations, assess AIUC-1 compliance, communicate technical results, and surface failure modes. Collaborate with customers, sales, delivery, standards, and core engineering teams while turning recurring field solutions into reusable product capabilities.