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About the role
idler is looking for an elite security researcher who can also build. You'll lead idler's cybersecurity work: deciding which environments we build, building and running the systems that produce them, recruiting and managing the part-time experts who review them, and working directly with researchers at frontier AI labs to understand what they need and sell them what we build. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of experience in a professional cybersecurity role, with a track record that puts you in the top 5% of your peers by reputation
- Deep hands-on experience in at least one of: web app pentesting, bug bounty hunting, vulnerability/zero-day research, hacking agents, or AI security
- Well-connected within the security community — this makes recruiting and evaluating the part-time experts you'll manage far easier
- Comfortable writing and shipping production code (Python, TypeScript, or similar). You don't need a decade of software engineering experience, but you need to build and maintain the systems your research depends on, not hand that off entirely
- Strong written communication — you'll justify prioritization calls to researchers and explain findings to people who didn't do the work themselves
More about this role
idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.
After raising a $9m seed round led by Paradigm, we spent the last year developing coding evals for top coding models you know and love. At the same time, we've expanded into other domains besides coding: RSI & Auto-Research, Law, Enterprise Business, Cybersecurity, and others. Now, we are facing more lab demand for our data than we can serve, and are rapidly scaling the team to grow the business.
Our approach to creating training data scales using technology, and all of our data products are built on a unified self-reinforcing platform that learns through experience.
You would be joining a close-knit team that has reached product market fit, and your work would directly help to multiply our revenue.
You can see some of our work here: https://idler.ai/collections
idler is looking for an elite security researcher who can also build. You'll lead idler's cybersecurity work: deciding which environments we build, building and running the systems that produce them, recruiting and managing the part-time experts who review them, and...
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