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About the Role
Lila Sciences is seeking an experienced security practitioner to lead work at the intersection of AI safety and security. You will investigate real systems, develop threat models, test assumptions, and recommend protections for AI systems used in scientific discovery. This role offers an opportunity to shape a developing area of AI safety through technical investigation, careful analysis, and clear writing, collaborating with security, safety, and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Threat-model consequential systems and capabilities, investigating potential misuse or compromise across models, deployed services, and scientific workflows.
- Identify relevant actors, access routes, failure paths, and potential protections.
- Test the assumptions behind defenses by examining architectures, code, configurations, and operational evidence.
- Run focused adversarial tests, build prototypes, and investigate weaknesses, including interdependencies between protections.
- Shape protections needed for safe deployment by translating capability assessments into concrete security requirements.
- Assess how compromise of models, sensitive assets, or supporting systems impacts safety assessments.
- Make evidence-based recommendations by defining evidence for control effectiveness and combining findings from model evaluations and security testing.
- Carry findings through to practical improvements by working with owners to prioritize changes, specify acceptance criteria, and verify results.
- Anticipate future security needs for more capable systems and help teams plan security work with long lead times.
- Develop methods for others to use, turning investigations into clear threat models, assessment methods, and technical guidance.
- Help colleagues apply the approach to new problems and build a shared understanding of evidence behind decisions.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on security experience and deep expertise in at least one relevant discipline (e.g., security architecture, application or infrastructure security, offensive security, incident response).
- Ability to reason across disciplines and identify when specialist judgment is needed.
- A record of resolving consequential security problems, including investigating ambiguous risks, challenging designs, and following improvements through to validation.
- Strong technical judgment, with the ability to examine unfamiliar systems, scrutinize code and configurations, and use technical investigation or testing to validate protection claims.
- Curiosity about AI safety and scientific systems, with the ability to learn unfamiliar domains quickly and reason carefully with incomplete evidence.
- Clear writing and effective collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical arguments precisely and work through disagreements.
Skills
- Security architecture
- Application security
- Infrastructure security
- Offensive security
- Incident response
- Threat modeling
- Adversarial testing
- Security requirements definition
- Technical writing
- Collaboration
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced practitioner
- Substantial hands-on security experience
Education Level
- A research PhD or experience in every security discipline is not required.
Salary/Compensations
- $192,000—$306,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation
- Bonus potential
- Generous early-stage equity
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Employer-paid disability insurance
- Flexible time off
- Generous company wide holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits
- Bike share memberships for office based employees
- Company subsidized lunch program
- International benefits tailored to region
About the Company
- Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges.
- We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI.
- LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves, combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously.
- We accelerate discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy.
- Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance.
Equal Opportunity
- Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.