# Strategic Projects Lead, Safety at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.joinhandshake.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/3fd38766-ddc7-4de8-b800-d72dec77a684
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-strategic-projects-lead-safety/

## 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

Tags: HAI Delivery Ops