Founding Member of Technical Staff

AI agents are being deployed everywhere, making high-stakes decisions and increasingly automating research itself. Yet their reliability and security remain unsolved technical problems, on a frontier that keeps shifting. Our mission at Exponential Security Labs is to secure agentic systems through self-improving red-teaming and guardrail agents, leveraging autonomous AI research. We sit at the intersection of safety and self-improvement, building on a decade of research in adversarial robustness and AI safety. We're looking for exceptional people to join us!

Tasks

As a founding member of technical staff, you will help us design and build a scalable ML system from the ground up. This includes:

Build and maintain production ML/LLM systems

Deploy, optimize, and monitor inference pipelines

Evaluate models, build red-teaming agents and guardrails

Improve reliability, latency, and cost of model serving

Shape best practices around AI safety and reliability

Requirements

What we are looking for:

MSc or PhD in ML, NLP, computer science, or related field

Strong software and ML engineering fundamentals

Experience deploying production LLM systems

Works across infra, backend, and model integration

High ownership, autonomy, bias toward execution

Benefits

We offer:

Competitive compensation with equity

Flexible hours, remote-friendly setup

Generous vacation, learning & conference budget

Top-tier equipment and tooling

Growing team, low bureaucracy, direct impact

Shape AI security from the ground up