Member of Technical Staff - Cybersecurity Capabilities
Preference Model · San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$180k–$300k/yrFull-time
About The Role
We're hiring experienced Security / Cybersecurity Engineers to design and build reinforcement learning environments that teach LLMs to reason about and solve real-world cybersecurity problems, such as finding vulnerabilities in production codebases to generating working exploits and patching them safely.
You'll join a small, high-ownership team and contribute directly to the data layer that powers frontier LLM capability in security.
What You Will Do
- Design and build RL environments and reward functions that produce clean, learnable signals for frontier models on offensive and defensive security tasks across diverse programming languages.
- Build environments covering the full vulnerability lifecycle: discovery in source code, exploiting, patching.
- Build environments for reverse engineering tasks across binaries, bytecode, and obfuscated code.
- Construct verifiable reward signals using fuzzers, sanitizers, symbolic execution, static analyzers, exploit-success checks, and patch-correctness validation.
- Collaborate with others to brainstorm and create new ideas and tools to improve the environment building process.
What We are Looking For
- Strong security fundamentals and broad interests across both offensive and defensive work.
- You read advisories, papers, and writeups, understand vulnerabilities deeply, and have the creativity to translate them into RLVR problems.
- Hands-on experience finding, exploiting, or patching real vulnerabilities through CTFs, bug bounty work, security research, red/blue team engagements, or shipped security work in industry.
- Proficiency in Python and systems programming, plus working comfort in at least one low-level language (C, C++, Rust) and one web/application stack.
- Familiarity with security tooling: fuzzers, sanitizers, debuggers, and disassemblers.
Nice to Have
- Published security research, CVEs, or notable bug bounty findings.
- Strong CTF background or competitive results at events like DEF CON CTF, or similar.
- Deep expertise in a specific area: binary exploitation, kernel security, browser/V8 internals, hypervisor security, cryptographic implementation, web application security, or cloud/container security.
- Experience building or contributing to fuzzing infrastructure, vulnerability scanners, or automated program analysis tools.
- Experience with ML for code or security.
- Built complex interactive RL environments, agent harnesses, or sandboxed evaluation infrastructure.
What we offer
- Competitive cash and equity compensation (>90th percentile)
- Ownership and autonomy in a fast moving startup environment
- Opportunity to work with top machine learning engineers
- Health, vision, dental, benefits
- 401K match
- Lunch provided everyday onsite
- Weekly snack orders
- Visa sponsorship & relocation support available
Compensation Range
$180K - $300K