Lead Scientist, Agentic AI Security (Remote)

CrowdStrike, Inc.; Washington (Washington County); Remote; USD 195,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Professional development

Employee networks

Great culture

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an applied research lead to drive both offensive and defensive AI frontiers in security.

You will set scientific direction for agentic AI work and lead research on the next generation of security products, spanning post-training, evaluation, and practical operator workflows. The role combines leadership with hands-on research, leading teams and executing experiments to push the state of the art while grounding research in real-world adversarial conditions and

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 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, reward modeling, and data curation.
• Establish rigorous evaluation, verification, and validation methodology for models, data, and end-to-end systems.
• Partner with security researchers, threat intel, detection engineering, and product to ground applied research in real workflows.
• Define abstractions for skills and tools agents use, grounded in practical execution.
• Advance agent design science, including harnesses, scaffolding, planning, memory, tool use, and multi-step reasoning; contribute innovations back to the field.

Skills

Data science

ML/DL

LLM post-training

Leadership

Evaluation methods

Education

MS or PhD in CS/CE

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking an applied research lead to drive both offensive and defensive AI frontiers in security.

You will set scientific direction for agentic AI work and lead research on the next generation of security products, spanning post-training, evaluation, and practical operator workflows. The role combines leadership with hands-on research, leading teams and executing experiments to push the state of the art while grounding research in real-world adversarial conditions and