Founding AI Security Engineer / Researcher at Refractal

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We are seeking a Founding AI Security Engineer / Researcher to define and build the security foundations for advanced artificial intelligence systems. This is an early, high-impact role for someone who is comfortable working across research, engineering, and product development. You will investigate emerging threats affecting machine learning models, AI agents, data pipelines, and deployment infrastructure, translating your findings into practical safeguards and scalable security capabilities.

Your responsibilities will include designing threat models for AI systems; identifying vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, insecure tool use, and adversarial manipulation; and developing methods to evaluate model and application security. You will create prototypes, automated testing frameworks, red-team exercises, and detection techniques, while contributing to secure architecture, access controls, monitoring, and incident response processes. You will also establish security standards for the development and deployment lifecycle, document risks clearly, and communicate technical findings to engineering, research, and leadership stakeholders. As an early team member, you will help shape priorities, technical direction, and the practices required to build a high-performing security function.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in application security, machine learning security, offensive security, or a closely related research field. You should be able to demonstrate hands-on programming ability, preferably in Python and one systems-oriented language, alongside a solid understanding of modern machine learning architectures, cloud environments, APIs, and software development practices. Experience assessing LLMs, autonomous agents, model-serving systems, or AI infrastructure is highly desirable. We value rigorous research skills, practical problem-solving, clear technical writing, and the ability to move from an ambiguous threat to an effective mitigation. A track record of published research, security tooling, responsible disclosures, capture-the-flag participation, or comparable independent work is welcome. You will thrive in this role if you are curious, collaborative, pragmatic, and motivated by building security practices from first principles.

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Founding AI Security Engineer / Researcher at Refractal

London, England, United Kingdom Permanent Security Engineer

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