Lead Agentic AI Security Scientist

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking an applied research lead to advance agentic AI in cybersecurity, guiding scientific direction and leading research for next-gen security products spanning model post-training, harness design, and evaluation methodologies.

This player/coach role requires deep technical credibility, hands-on leadership, collaboration with security researchers and product teams, and the ability to publish and contribute to industry standards.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research agenda for agentic AI systems that operate autonomously across cybersecurity use cases.
• Drive original research on efficient models tuned for security workflows, including post-training and data curation strategies.
• Personally lead the experimental work on the most ambiguous problems with rigorous evaluation and verification.
• Partner with security researchers, threat intel, detection engineering, and product teams to ground research in real workflows.
• Define principled abstractions for the skills and tools agents use.
• 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.

Skills

Data science

ML/DL

Leadership

Evaluation discipline

Hands-on contribution

Research contributions

Education

MS/PhD in computer science or related field

Tools

LLM post-training techniques

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking an applied research lead to advance agentic AI in cybersecurity, guiding scientific direction and leading research for next-gen security products spanning model post-training, harness design, and evaluation methodologies.

This player/coach role requires deep technical credibility, hands-on leadership, collaboration with security researchers and product teams, and the ability to publish and contribute to industry standards.