Scale AI

Strategic Projects Lead, Red Team

San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · Director · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$151k-$189kDetected 13 days ago

Full-Stack DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsCybersecurityPenetration TestingResearchCommunication

About the role

Scale's Red Team and Safety function stress-tests the most capable AI models in the world, and shapes how labs, governments, and enterprises deploy them.
This is a hands-on role for someone who is technically curious, comfortable with researchers, and operationally rigorous.
The team Red Team and Safety is a nimble function that stress-tests frontier AI.

Responsibilities

You will partner closely with research, operations, and go-to-market.
We partner with major model developers to generate adversarial data, run evaluations, and publish benchmarks across jailbreaks, prompt injection, agentic misuse, LLM-based cyber security, CBRN, political bias, and self-harm.
Own a portfolio of frontier-lab partnerships day-to-day. Run customer conversations, scope new engagements, and grow accounts from one-off projects into ongoing scope.
Coordinate delivery with research and operations leads. Make sure scope, capacity, and timelines line up before we commit, and unblock the team as engagements run.

Requirements

Advanced degree in a relevant technical field.

Nice to have

Working fluency in model behavior, adversarial ML, and AI safety, enough to hold a substantive conversation with researchers and ML engineers.
Experience managing technical accounts or partnerships, ideally with frontier AI labs, large enterprises, or federal agencies.
Genuine interest in AI safety, evidenced in prior work, writing, or research.
Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to translate between research and commercial audiences.
Operational rigor
you scope carefully, track commitments, and keep complex engagements moving.
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action.

Compensation

packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits.
Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval.
Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant.
$151,200 - $189,000 USD

Benefits

comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.
Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Company info

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.
We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision.
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At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.

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