Principal Engineer, Frontier AI for Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 235,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Generous vacation

Parental leaves

Professional development

Employee networks

Job summary

CrowdStrike Inc. seeks a Distinguished Engineer to drive the future of cybersecurity AI within the Cybersecurity Superintelligence Lab.

You will bridge frontier AI research with deep cyber expertise and scalable systems engineering, influencing architectural decisions and turning breakthroughs into real capabilities at CrowdStrike scale. You will collaborate with threat researchers, incident responders, and security experts to ground research in real-world defense, developing benchmarks and

Qualifications

• Deep AI and cybersecurity expertise demonstrated through research or systems work.
• Ability to identify important security problems and apply AI to them.
• Experience building end-to-end AI systems in security contexts.
• Proven track record leading technical teams and influencing major decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define the future of cybersecurity AI and track frontier AI advances.
• Identify new capabilities and use cases to transform defender operations.
• Set research directions and technical approaches for pursuing them.
• Invent and build end-to-end cybersecurity AI systems that coordinate tools and data.
• Ensure models, agents, telemetry, and execution environments work together.
• Lead research and architecture decisions across the Lab and mentor teams.

Skills

AI & cybersecurity

Multi-agent systems

Threat hunting

System architecture

Leadership

Research mindset

Education

PhD in CS/CE/Math

Job description

CrowdStrike Inc. seeks a Distinguished Engineer to drive the future of cybersecurity AI within the Cybersecurity Superintelligence Lab.

You will bridge frontier AI research with deep cyber expertise and scalable systems engineering, influencing architectural decisions and turning breakthroughs into real capabilities at CrowdStrike scale. You will collaborate with threat researchers, incident responders, and security experts to ground research in real-world defense, developing benchmarks and