Senior Director, AI Security Lab (Remote)

CrowdStrike Inc.; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 235,000 - 355,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market-leading compensation & equity

Wellness programs

Generous vacation & holidays

Parental & adoption leave

Professional development

Employee networks & community

Vibrant office culture

Great Place to Work certification

Job summary

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director to lead the Lab’s AI security initiatives, turning frontier research into real-world security systems. You will manage engineers and researchers, shape the engineering strategy, and deliver high-impact security capabilities on endpoints and in the cloud.

You will engage with executives to translate complex tradeoffs and drive strategic investments. The role combines people leadership, technical depth, and strategic influence, requiring the ability

Qualifications

• Track record leading AI or ML systems for security in production.
• Experience building distributed systems with high-throughput data and GPU inference.
• Executive leadership with ability to set direction and drive alignment across teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a world-class organization.
• Own the strategy and roadmap for Lab AI security systems.
• Deliver frontier AI on endpoint and cloud scale with strict latency and cost controls.
• Drive production deployments of agentic systems for autonomous defense.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Strategy & roadmaps

AI security systems

Distributed systems

GPU inference stacks

Cross-functional collaboration

Security domain expertise

Education

BS, MS or PhD in CS/CE/EE/Applied Math

Job description

CrowdStrike, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director to lead the Lab’s AI security initiatives, turning frontier research into real-world security systems. You will manage engineers and researchers, shape the engineering strategy, and deliver high-impact security capabilities on endpoints and in the cloud.

You will engage with executives to translate complex tradeoffs and drive strategic investments. The role combines people leadership, technical depth, and strategic influence, requiring the ability