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Principal AI Model Security Researcher

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Redmond, WAJobPosted 1 day agoStill listed today

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Location
Redmond, WA
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Job overview

The Principal AI Model Security Researcher investigates and tests security weaknesses in advanced AI models, post-training systems, data pipelines, and evaluation environments. The role develops reproducible attack experiments and threat models, assesses risk, and partners with research, engineering, and product security teams to remediate findings. It also turns confirmed weaknesses into ongoing evaluations, training interventions, and technical controls, and communicates findings to technical and leadership audiences.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Adversarial Machine LearningAI SecurityModel EvaluationPrivacy AttacksOffensive SecuritySecurity InvestigationsProgrammingResearch PrototypingAttack ToolingEvaluation HarnessesAutomated TestingLarge Language ModelsReinforcement LearningAgentic SystemsReward ModelingInterpretabilityCapability ElicitationData ExtractionData PoisoningModel Supply-Chain SecurityCyber ExploitationCloud SecurityIdentity SecuritySandboxingSecure Evaluation EnvironmentsOffensive-Security OperationsRisk CommunicationThreat ModelingWhite-Box AttacksAdversarial TrainingSafety Training

Qualifications

Doctorate or 3+ Years, Master's or 4+ Years, Bachelor's or 6+ Years, or Equivalent3+ Years Related Research Experience4+ Years Related Research Experience6+ Years Related Research Experience

Full job description

Remote work within the United States will be considered for highly qualified candidates. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Doctorate in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 6+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Hands-on expertise in adversarial machine learning, AI security, model evaluation, privacy attacks, offensive security or a closely related discipline. Experience designing experiments or security investigations that produce reproducible technical evidence and actionable remediation. Programming and research-prototyping ability sufficient to build attack tooling, evaluation harnesses and automated tests. Experience testing large language models, post-training or reinforcement-learning systems, agentic systems or AI-enabled security products. Knowledge of reward modeling, interpretability, capability elicitation, data extraction, poisoning, privacy or model supply-chain security. Experience with cyber exploitation, cloud or identity security, sandboxing, secure evaluation environments or offensive-security operations. Demonstrated ability to communicate complex attack paths, severity and residual risk to researchers, engineers and senior decision-makers. Experience converting research findings into production evaluations, mitigations, training interventions or security controls. Design and execute white-box attacks against advanced AI models, checkpoints, post-training systems, reward functions, data pipelines and evaluation environments. Investigate adversarial behavior including jailbreaks, harmful permissiveness, reward hacking, deceptive behavior, capability elicitation, privacy leakage, data poisoning and model supply-chain compromise. Build high-fidelity experiments and automated attack suites that reproduce realistic threats and run continuously against new checkpoints and system configurations. Develop rigorous threat models, attack hypotheses and reproducible evidence; assess severity, exploitability and customer or governance impact. Partner with model scientists, engineers and product security teams to identify root causes and drive findings to verified remediation. Convert confirmed weaknesses into regression evaluations, adversarial training or RL environments, safety training data and stronger technical controls. Communicate findings and residual risk clearly to technical teams, leadership and independent reviewers.

How this job compares

Set against the 594 open Machine Learning Researcher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Washington median$159–229K/yr32 salary ranges
  • US median$54–85/hr23 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 83 open Machine Learning Researcher jobs in Washington and 594 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
Machine Learning Researcher postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (226 postings).
Education
241 of the 594 open Machine Learning Researcher jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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