Member of Technical Staff, Offensive Security Research
Berkeley, CA$402k - $578.6kEmployeePosted 1mo ago
About the role
METR seeks cyberforensics researchers to embed in frontier AI labs to investigate incidents, stress-test monitoring, and assess loss-of-control risks from internal deployment. Role includes incident investigation, red-teaming, reporting, and building AI-assisted forensic tooling to provide independent information on catastrophic AI risks.
Responsibilities
- Incident investigation: embedded in a frontier AI lab for up to several weeks at a time, alongside 1-4 other METR staff; develop methodology, build tooling, write results, plan/coordinate future exercises
- Red-teaming: attack agent monitoring and security systems, potentially embedded in labs or METR internal infrastructure
- Reporting: produce findings rigorous enough for lab boards, governments, and the public; contribute to public incident tracking and risk reports
- Building AI-assisted forensic tooling: develop LLM-powered pipelines to triage transcripts, cluster behaviors, flag deception, and accelerate investigations
Qualifications
- Digital forensics and incident response: experience with evidence acquisition/preservation, log/timeline reconstruction across cloud, network, endpoint, identity systems; attacker tradecraft analysis; post-incident reporting
- Cloud and infrastructure fluency: experience with AWS (CloudTrail, IAM, VPC flow logs), Kubernetes/containers, CI/CD, package registries
- Understanding LLMs: knowledge of frontier model training/deployment (RL post-training, agent scaffolds, sandboxing, monitoring); ability to reason about root causes and work with LLMs
- Attention to detail and communication: ability to conduct rigorous investigations and produce publishable findings
Skills
Required:Digital forensics and incident responseCloud and infrastructure fluencyUnderstanding LLMsAttention to detail and communication
Benefits
- Retirement: 401(k) with 100% match up to 8% of salary
- Life Insurance: Employer-paid basic life insurance at 1x salary
- Time-off and leave: Unlimited PTO and 21-week parental leave
- The office: Catered lunch and dinner daily; in-office gym and shower
- Health: Medical, dental and vision coverage with 99% employee premiums paid; Employer funded HRA; Fertility benefits
- Relocation stipend for Bay Area
- Wellness stipend for gym memberships/equipment/therapy/medication
- Commuter stipend (monthly transit/parking) and Uber budget
- Professional development stipend for training/conferences/AI safety education
- Work equipment stipend for home office
- Management coaching for managers
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About METR
Model Evaluation & Threat Research
METR (pronounced 'meter') is a research nonprofit that scientifically measures whether and when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society.
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