AI Safety Institute
Cybersecurity Engineer
Role Snapshot
About the Role This role focuses on building environments and challenges to benchmark the cyber capabilities of AI systems. The engineer will design cyber ranges, CTF-style tasks, and evaluation infrastructure to measure how well frontier AI models perform on real-world cybersecurity tasks. Core Responsibilities: Evaluation Design & Development (60%): Design cyber ranges and CTF challenges; build agentic scaffolding...
About the Role
This role focuses on building environments and challenges to benchmark the cyber capabilities of AI systems. The engineer will design cyber ranges, CTF-style tasks, and evaluation infrastructure to measure how well frontier AI models perform on real-world cybersecurity tasks.
Core Responsibilities
- Evaluation Design & Development (60%): Design cyber ranges and CTF challenges; build agentic scaffolding with tools like packet capture utilities and penetration testing frameworks; design metrics for evaluations
- Infrastructure Engineering (30%): Ensure evaluation environments are robust and scalable
- Research & Communication (10%): Write reports and research papers; stay current with cybersecurity research
Essential Requirements
- Strong Python skills for automation or security tooling
- Proven experience in at least one red-teaming area: penetration testing, cyber range design, CTF competition/design, automated security testing, or vulnerability research
- Strong interest in AI safety
Preferred
- Virtualization technologies (Proxmox VE) and infrastructure-as-code experience
- Familiarity with security tools (packet capture, penetration testing frameworks, reverse engineering)
- Active in cybersecurity community
- Experience building automation tools for red-teaming workflows
Benefits
- 28.97% employer pension contribution
- 25+ days annual leave, 8 public holidays, 3 volunteering days
- Generous parental leave
- Hybrid working with remote flexibility
