Hiring: Strategic Projects Lead, Safety Company: Handshake Location: New York, NY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 20:44:04 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : LLM, Stakeholder Management About the job Experience: •2+ years of experience in trust & safety, red-teaming, security research, policy enforcement, or a related technical/analytical field Required Skills: •As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) •Working hands-on with leading AI labs, you will make real-time decisions that affect delivery quality, program scope, and long-term customer relationships. This is a high-ownership, outcomes-driven role for operators who thrive in ambiguity, move fast with incomplete information, and are accountable for results at scale. •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 Qualifications: •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 •Subject matter expertise in high-severity policy harms (e.g., CBRN, cyber, violent extremism) •Background in security research, offensive security, or AI safety research •Note: This role involves exposure to sensitive or explicit content (e.g., violent, sexual, or otherwise disturbing material) as part of safety and policy evaluation work. Compensation: •$160,000 - $160,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •🎯 Ownership: Equity in a fast-growing company Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!