Lead AI Red Team Researcher — Frontier Models

CrowdStrike Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation & holidays

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work Certified

Job summary

CrowdStrike in the United States seeks a Principal Researcher to lead the AI red teaming research agenda within the Data Science team. This senior individual contributor role sets the research direction, builds repeatable tooling, and raises the bar for others in the group.

You will drive end-to-end vulnerability research on agentic systems, publish findings, and provide technical guidance across engineering, product, legal and executive stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Public record of original security research: CVEs, coordinated disclosures, conference talks or peer‑reviewed papers that you led.
• Deep hands‑on expertise in offensive security: exploitation, vulnerability research or red teaming, with the ability to find and demonstrate a vulnerability end to end yourself.
• Demonstrated research on LLMs or agentic systems: prompt and environment injection, tool‑use abuse, jailbreaks, multi‑agent attacks, or model evaluation under adversarial conditions.
• Strong Python and systems engineering skills. You write the harnesses, interceptors and converters the team runs on, and you review others’ code to a production standard.
• Practical understanding of how agentic systems are built: tool use, planning loops, memory, sandboxing, and trust boundaries.
• Experience setting technical direction for other researchers as a tech lead or principal, with evidence that people you worked with went on to lead work themselves.
• Exceptional written communication. Your research notes, disclosures and papers are the team’s external face.

Responsibilities

• Propose and prioritise the attack classes, agent target classes and frontier model behaviours the team studies, with a written rationale for each and a kill date.
• Red team frontier models and the agentic systems. Track how each model release shifts attack success, agent behaviour and the controls that hold, and publish the result.
• Conduct vulnerability research and security assessments on agentic ecosystems end to end: hypothesis, exploit, observed action, disclosure, patch verification.
• Deliver state‑of‑the‑art research: internal research notes on a monthly cadence, external papers, conference talks and coordinated disclosures with vendor credit.
• Investigate failure modes personally where the evidence is hardest to get: multi‑agent systems, long‑horizon tasks, defences that look like they work.

Skills

Python

Offensive security

Red teaming

LLMs / agentic systems

Research leadership

Disclosures

Technical writing

Tools

Attack harnesses

Action-trace capture

Tool-call interception

Payload converters

Experiment runners

Job description

CrowdStrike in the United States seeks a Principal Researcher to lead the AI red teaming research agenda within the Data Science team. This senior individual contributor role sets the research direction, builds repeatable tooling, and raises the bar for others in the group.

You will drive end-to-end vulnerability research on agentic systems, publish findings, and provide technical guidance across engineering, product, legal and executive stakeholders.