Strategic Projects Lead - AI Safety
Raydar
Strategic Projects Lead - AI Safety
Raydar
AI-powered recruiting agency for tech roles
Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-02
Workplace: on_site
Join a rapidly scaling AI data and infrastructure company that partners with leading frontier AI labs to build complex datasets, adversarial evaluations, and experimentation systems for advanced models and agents. The company has grown quickly to more than $100M in revenue run rate, raised $34M, and offers early team members the chance to shape both client work and company-wide initiatives.
This is an on-site role in San Francisco for a highly driven operator who can own demanding AI safety projects from client relationship through delivery. The team typically works in the office six days per week and may work 60+ hours during intense periods.
What you'll do
• Partner directly with leading AI labs to design and deliver adversarial datasets, red-teaming programs, and safety benchmarks.
• Own client relationships and project execution end to end, delivering high-quality work against tight timelines.
• Lead teams of subject-matter experts across software engineering, finance, science, security, and other domains.
• Collaborate with internal teams on advanced AI research, evaluation, and data-infrastructure initiatives.
• Drive cross-functional company initiatives as an early team member and support operational priorities where needed.
• 2+ years of experience in AI safety, red teaming, trust and safety, adversarial machine learning, security research, or a closely related field.
• Hands-on adversarial experience such as jailbreaking or stress-testing frontier models, prompt-injection research, offensive security, penetration testing, bug bounty programs, CTFs, or trust-and-safety investigations and enforcement.
• Experience at a frontier AI lab, major technology company, leading security firm, or an equivalent high-caliber environment.
• Degree from a top-tier university in the United States, Canada, or Europe, unless professional experience is exceptional.
• Strong communication and client-management skills, with high agency and a track record of owning projects end to end.
• Comfort operating in a high-intensity environment such as management consulting, investment banking, a fast-paced startup, or another demanding client-facing setting.
• Willingness to work on site in San Francisco, typically six days per week, and to work 60+ hours when needed.
• Base salary: $130,000-$150,000.
• Public total compensation range: $260,000-$450,000, including bonus and meaningful equity.
• Full-time, on-site in San Francisco, California.
• Visa transfers such as OPT and H-1B transfers may be considered. Exceptional candidates may receive other sponsorship support, but new H-1B petitions are not available.
• In-person final-stage logistics are covered.
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Raydar is an AI-powered talent acquisition firm that serves tech-focused organizations on a contingency basis, charging client companies only after a successful hire. It uses proprietary AI to identify a large pool of candidates and conducts a short 15-minute AI-driven interview (recorded and transcribed) before human recruiters review materials, provide interview prep, and assist with offers and negotiations. What sets it apart is the blend of automated sourcing and screening with hands-on human oversight and tailored client support. Its goal is to help organizations hire more efficiently by speeding up sourcing while maintaining thorough evaluation and negotiation assistance.
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