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FAR.AI

Head of Engineering – Frontier Safety

FAR.AI

. Serve as the senior technical owner of engineering for FAR.AI’s Frontier Safety division .

Posted 11/11/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $225,000 - $350,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in software engineering and AI, with a strong focus on building and leading technical teams in rapidly evolving environments. Proficient in developing red-teaming tools, managing engineering systems, and integrating AI evaluation frameworks.

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Software EngineeringTeam LeadershipPython ProgrammingLLM APIs ExperienceCloud Infrastructure

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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringPython ProgrammingLLM APIsRed-Teaming ToolsStatistical AnalysisAutomated Workflow DevelopmentVulnerability Database ManagementSecure Sandboxing ArchitectureAdversarial MLEvaluation Frameworks
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsMentoringProblem-SolvingMission OrientationAdaptability
Tools & Technologies
GCPKubernetesSlurmClaude CodeCodexCursorVLLMInspectOpenAIAnthropic
Industry Keywords
CybersecurityMLOpsAI SafetyAI SystemsFrontier AITechnical StrategyEngineering MethodologyVulnerability EvaluationComplex SystemsEntrepreneurial Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Serve as the senior technical owner of engineering for FAR.AI’s Frontier Safety division
  • Report to Kellin Pelrine with a dotted line to Edward Yee
  • Translate technical strategy and priorities into a world-class engineering organization, systems, and execution
  • Build and scale red-teaming tools and products
  • Operationalize systems for attacker simulation and output severity evaluation
  • Maintain and evolve vulnerability databases, statistical analysis tools, and reporting infrastructure
  • Develop automated red-teaming, jailbreak-integration, and workflow agents
  • Build, test, and refine secure sandboxing architecture for evaluating advanced AI systems
  • Extend infrastructure and tooling for CBRN, cyber, and loss-of-control evaluations
  • Design architecture for external platform contributions and AI evaluation ecosystem integrations such as Inspect
  • Integrate engineering systems with testing workflows, private disclosures, public reports, benchmarks, and leaderboards
  • Build and manage an engineering team of individual contributors, then hire or grow managers
  • Mentor and manage team members and create resources for skill growth and knowledge transfer
  • Design hiring pipelines and serve as hiring manager for engineers, engineering managers, and other roles
  • Contribute to division-wide technical and product strategy
  • Identify, prioritize, and solve engineering bottlenecks
  • Partner with division leadership on technical direction, engineering systems, red-teaming methodology, evaluations, safeguards, and research
  • Work with the company engagements and testing team to improve feedback loops
  • Partner with FAR.AI teams to translate technical ideas and findings into real-world impact

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Strong track record in software engineering, AI, or another computer engineering discipline such as cybersecurity or MLOps
  • Strong track record of managing, growing, and leading technical teams, including building start-ups from 0 → 1 and managing managers in scale-ups
  • Experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with LLM APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google
  • Experience with local LLM frameworks such as vLLM
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks such as Inspect
  • Experience with LLM agents such as OpenClaw
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as GCP
  • Experience with compute clusters such as Kubernetes or Slurm
  • Experience thriving in rapidly evolving environments
  • Demonstrated mission and impact orientation focused on frontier AI systems
  • Ability to communicate technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated relentlessness in achieving ambitious goals
  • Leadership experience
  • Willingness to build an engineering team from a small starting team
  • Willingness to work at the required velocity in an ambiguous, rapidly changing environment
  • Preferred: experience building, red-teaming, or evaluating frontier LLMs or agentic systems, or building safeguards
  • Preferred: experience building technical teams and products in an entrepreneurial environment
  • Preferred: ability to discover non-obvious, high-severity vulnerabilities in complex systems
  • Preferred: experience in adversarial ML or security
  • Preferred: prior collaboration with AI labs, security teams, or government safety institutes
  • Preferred: published work in AI safety, security, or robustness
  • Full-time availability, 40 hours/week
  • Ability to work with timezone flexibility across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Work-related travel expenses paid
  • Work-related equipment expenses paid
  • Catered lunch and dinner at the Berkeley office
  • Visa sponsorship for in-person employees in the US or Singapore
  • Full-time employment benefits through FAR.AI, FAR.Singapore, or an Employer of Record depending on location
  • Paid work trial
  • Remote work globally
  • Flexible timezone arrangement across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific