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Strategic Projects Lead, Safety

Handshake· HAI Delivery Ops
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New York, NYFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) on AI Safety & Red Teaming responsible for end-to-end execution of large-scale adversarial testing programs to develop frontier AI models, including harm policy evaluation, jailbreak/adversarial pipelines, and agentic red-teaming, with direct collaboration to frontier labs to shape policy and evaluation coverage.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end execution of red-teaming and safety evaluation programs spanning sensitive, high-severity harm categories, from scoping through delivery
  • Run multiple programs across different frontier labs and policy domains, each with its own scope, harm categories, and stakeholders
  • Design and run adversarial testing methodologies, such as jailbreak technique development and iterative push-to-failure testing, to surface model vulnerabilities against frontier labs’ policies
  • Extend red-teaming methods into agentic contexts, evaluating how models behave under adversarial pressure when operating with tools and multi-step autonomy
  • Lead and coordinate teams of expert Fellows executing sensitive, high-stakes testing work, maintaining precision and consistency across harm categories, languages, and markets
  • Partner directly with policy leads at frontier AI labs to identify coverage gaps, ambiguous classifications, and emerging risk areas, and help shape policy documents based on findings
  • Synthesize testing data into insight reports that surface trends, systemic gaps, and recommended areas of policy and evaluation development
  • Design and adapt staffing models for your red-teaming workforce (team size, skill mix, training, and incentive structures) to improve throughput and delivery reliability as program requirements evolve

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in trust & safety, red-teaming, security research, policy enforcement, or a related technical/analytical field
  • Excellent project and workforce management skills, comfortable leading and directing teams of red-teamers and testers against tight timelines and shifting scope
  • Strong analytical and first-principles problem-solving skills, comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing testing environments
  • Working familiarity with adversarial testing concepts (jailbreak techniques, prompt-based exploits) or a fast ability to pick them up
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior customers and policy teams at frontier AI labs
  • High ownership mindset with pride in end-to-end accountability
  • Curiosity and ability to quickly learn technical AI concepts, model behavior, and industry trends

Skills

Required:Adversarial testingProject and workforce managementStakeholder managementStrategic thinking

Benefits

  • Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company
  • Financial Wellness: 401(k) match, competitive compensation, financial coaching
  • Family Support: Paid parental leave, fertility benefits, parental coaching
  • Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision, mental health support, $500 wellness stipend
  • Growth: $2,000 learning stipend, ongoing development
  • Remote & Office: Internet, commuting, and free lunch/gym in our SF office
  • Time Off: Flexible PTO, 15 holidays + 2 flex days
  • Connection: Team outings & referral bonuses
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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