Senior AI Researcher - Offensive Security, Remote & Equity

Assail; Town of Boston (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Health and dental coverage

Unlimited paid time off

Conference and learning budget

Job summary

Assail is looking for a dedicated AI Researcher to advance the core models behind Ares, working directly with the VP of AI Engineering and CEO. This role focuses on conducting original research on offensive security agents.

The ideal candidate will own the research process, from hypothesis to production, and contribute to external research outputs. Attractive benefits include competitive salary, healthcare, and unlimited paid time off.

Qualifications

• Publications, preprints, or significant open-source contributions.
• Experience with language models at the 7B+ parameter scale.
• Hands-on experience with reinforcement learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Conduct original research on offensive security agents.
• Design and execute end-to-end experiments.
• Translate research findings into production-ready models.

Skills

Original ML research output

Experience with agentic LLM systems

Strong Python and PyTorch

Ability to design evaluation methodologies

Tools

Multi-GPU training

Job description

Assail is looking for a dedicated AI Researcher to advance the core models behind Ares, working directly with the VP of AI Engineering and CEO. This role focuses on conducting original research on offensive security agents.

The ideal candidate will own the research process, from hypothesis to production, and contribute to external research outputs. Attractive benefits include competitive salary, healthcare, and unlimited paid time off.