Staff AI Security Scientist

the team believes is possible. What You’ll Do: Lead the research agenda for agentic AI systems that operate autonomously across cybersecurity use cases. Set scientific direction, shaping

the team’s research bets and staying close enough to the work to run experiments, review results, and dig into hard problems alongside

the team. Drive original research on efficient models tuned for security workflows, including methods in post-training, reward modeling, and data curation strategies that enable them. Personally lead the experimental work on the most ambiguous problems. Establish a rigorous evaluation, verification, and validation methodology covering models, data, agent designs, and end-to-end systems. This includes current and new benchmarks, adversarial evaluation protocols, and measurement practices that others in the field will adopt. Partner closely with security researchers, threat intel, detection engineering, and product to ground applied research in real operator workflows and adversarial conditions. Define principled abstractions for the skills and tools agents use, grounded in practical ways that security agents execute. Advance the science of agent design, including harnesses, scaffolding, planning, memory, tool use, and multi-step reasoning. Contribute novel techniques back to the field through publications and standards. What You’ll Need: MS or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or similar quantitative field. 10+ years of experience in data science, ML/DL, or AI with a focus on large-scale data problems. Hands-on expertise in modern LLM post-training techniques. Demonstrated research contributions to or experience building agentic systems. Strong evaluation discipline (designing, extending, or validating methodologies). A leadership style that values hands-on contributions at every level, including your own.

Bonus Points: Hands-on background in offensive security, detection engineering, incident response, or threat intelligence applied research. Experience designing RL environments and synthetic data pipelines for agent tuning. Experience navigating regulatory, compliance, or audit conversations about AI systems, especially translating research into responsible deployment. History of mentoring and growing researchers in the security domain. #LI-Remote #LI-RC1

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compensation practices. Placement within the pay range is dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications, job level, supervisory status, and location. The base salary range for this position for all U.S. candidates is $235,000 - $350,000 per year, with eligibility for bonuses, equity grants and a comprehensive

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benefits package, please click here. Expected Close Date of Job Posting is:10-14-2026 CrowdStrike was founded in 2011 to fix a fundamental problem: The sophisticated attacks that were forcing the world’s leading businesses into the headlines could not be solved with existing malware-based defenses. Founder George Kurtz realized that a brand new approach was needed — one that combines the most advanced endpoint protection with expert intelligence to pinpoint the adversaries perpetrating the attacks, not just the malware. There’s much more to the story of how Falcon has redefined endpoint protection but there’s only one thing to remember about CrowdStrike: We stop breaches.

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