Lead Agentic AI Security Scientist

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.; Washington; Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Wellness programs

Vacations & holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Office culture

Great Place to Work

Job summary

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking an applied research lead to drive agentic AI initiatives across cybersecurity use cases. You will set the scientific direction, lead experiments, and advance post-training techniques for efficient security models.

The role requires a MS/PhD in a quantitative field, 10+ years in data science/ML/DL/AI, and proven leadership in research on agentic systems. You will collaborate with security teams to ensure rigorous evaluation and responsible deployment.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or similar quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Lead the research agenda for agentic AI systems across cybersecurity use cases.
• Set scientific direction, shape research bets, and run experiments with the team.
• Drive original research on efficient models tuned for security workflows and data curation strategies.
• Personally lead the experimental work on the most ambiguous problems.
• Establish a rigorous evaluation, verification, and validation methodology for models and end-to-end systems.
• Partner with security researchers, threat intel, detection engineering, and product teams to ground research in workflows.
• Define abstractions for skills and tools agents use, grounded in practical execution.

Skills

Data science

ML/DL

AI

Research leadership

Evaluation methodology

Education

MS/PhD in CS/CE

Job description

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is seeking an applied research lead to drive agentic AI initiatives across cybersecurity use cases. You will set the scientific direction, lead experiments, and advance post-training techniques for efficient security models.

The role requires a MS/PhD in a quantitative field, 10+ years in data science/ML/DL/AI, and proven leadership in research on agentic systems. You will collaborate with security teams to ensure rigorous evaluation and responsible deployment.