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About the role
As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) on AI Safety & Red Teaming, you will own the execution of large-scale adversarial testing programs that directly develop frontier AI models before and after release. You will design and run structured efforts to push models to failure, spanning work such as evaluating harm and policy categories against frontier labs’ own policy specifications, developing jailbreak and adversarial technique pipelines, and extending red-teaming into agentic settings, among other methods, then work...
What they're looking for
- 2+ years of experience in trust & safety, red-teaming, security research, policy enforcement, or a related technical/analytical field
- Excellent project and workforce management skills, comfortable leading and directing teams of red-teamers and testers against tight timelines and shifting scope
- Strong analytical and first-principles problem-solving skills, comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing testing environments
- Working familiarity with adversarial testing concepts (jailbreak techniques, prompt-based exploits) or a fast ability to pick them up
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior customers and policy teams at frontier AI labs
- High ownership mindset with pride in end-to-end accountability
More about this role
Handshake was founded on a simple belief that everyone deserves a path to a great career, regardless of where they went to school or who they know. Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.
In 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.
Shape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel
Partner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions
Work together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders
Build a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue
Human data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. Frontier AI labs currently improve model capabilities with various data-intensive post-training techniques. We believe that data spend for AI training will increase by 3-5x...
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