Chief Information Security Officer
About The Position
Security at METR is becoming its own dedicated team, and you will lead it. It is extremely important that we continue to be an organization that frontier AI labs, governments, and the public trust with sensitive model access and confidential information. As misalignment incidents become more extreme and confidential information about models and frontier AI labs becomes more valuable, we expect to be under increasingly heavy pressure from external actors and internal agents. We now need someone thinking about organizational security posture full time and proactively planning against future threats. You will own security at METR, ensuring our security strategy grows as the organization does.
Requirements
- Deep security and management background.
- Accountable for an org’s security posture or led high-stakes security engagements in the past, including being part of or leading an IR team.
- Hands-on mentality: interested in lower-level security details, and can personally investigate an incident, read a cloud IAM policy, review a sandboxing design, or configure identity and endpoint tooling.
- Threat modeling and red teaming experience.
- Ability to reason about defending against both insiders and sophisticated, well-resourced adversaries.
- Mission-aligned: care deeply about METR’s mission of investigating catastrophic risks for AI.
Nice To Haves
- Built a security team from scratch (first security hire or founding CISO).
- Led incident response end to end, including decision-making and communication to stakeholders.
- Experience securing AI/ML systems or agent infrastructure.
- Familiarity with the tooling in our environment: DataDog, Kubernetes, CrowdStrike Falcon, Okta, Tailscale, Pulumi, PostgreSQL.
Responsibilities
- Advising METR leadership on the security implications of new partnerships, evaluation programs, and model access arrangements before commitments are made.
- Setting the organizational security roadmap and building up our security culture.
- Consolidating ownership of security areas that today are spread across teams and filling gaps that currently have no owner.
- Managing a team of security engineers and contractors across incident response, infrastructure hardening, red-teaming, and meeting the security requirements of our external partnerships.
Benefits
- Catered lunch and dinner daily
- In-office gym and shower
- Stipend for moving to the Bay Area
- Unlimited PTO
- 21-week parental leave for new parents
- Monthly transit/parking stipend
- Annual Uber budget
- Professional development benefit for training, courses, conferences, and AI safety education
- Mental health benefit for therapy, medication, and other mental health expenses
- Wellness benefit for gym memberships and other wellness expenses
- Work equipment benefit for home office and workstation equipment expenses
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
