# Strategic Projects Lead - AI Safety at AfterQuery

- Company: AfterQuery
- What the company does: AfterQuery captures how experts reason and turns real-world professional work into high-quality training data for frontier foundation models. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://afterquery.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/afterquery/6ba4e31f-7df6-4109-992a-0c40fba806d8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/afterquery-strategic-projects-lead-ai-safety/

## About the role

Project and client management: Partner directly with the safety, alignment, and trust & safety teams at frontier AI labs — scoping their hardest data problems, translating them into deliverable programs, and driving revenue. Manage expert teams: Recruit and lead specialized contributors — red teamers, security researchers, trust & safety practitioners, and domain risk experts — and hold a high bar on the quality of what they produce.

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years in AI safety, red teaming, trust & safety, adversarial ML, or security research, at a frontier AI lab, FAANG, top security firm, or equivalent
- Hands-on adversarial experience: jailbreaking or stress-testing frontier models, prompt injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty, CTFs, or trust & safety investigations and enforcement
- Fluency with how safety work is actually structured (harm taxonomies, evaluation design, safety frameworks and model policy)
- High agency and the ability to execute in ambiguity, comfort defining the problem before solving it
- Strong writing. Much of this job is specifying risk precisely enough that fifty other people can execute against it
- Genuine passion for AI and interest in entrepreneurship

Tags: Operations