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AI Security Research Director

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Sep 11, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Leading the Sysdig Threat Research Team, the full-time AI Security Research Director will manage adversary research and detection engineering, focusing on AI-related threats and AI-driven research methods while working remotely.

Key responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end Threat Research process, including setting the research agenda and detection content roadmap
  • Develop capabilities against AI security threats, converting findings into detection mechanisms and public research outputs
  • Lead a team of researchers and engineers, guiding their technical direction and ensuring high-quality detection content
Required qualifications
  • 10+ years in security research or detection engineering, with 4+ years in a leadership role
  • Demonstrated original AI security research with published work or shipped detections
  • Hands-on experience in coding, tooling, and analysis related to AI security
  • Depth of knowledge in Linux, container, Kubernetes, and cloud internals
  • Experience managing research agendas alongside customer-driven detection queues

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