Head of Security
Apollo Research7 hours ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build and own Apollo’s security program, roadmap, risk assessments, and security posture.
- Serve as the primary security contact for frontier AI lab partners and maintain technical security documentation.
- Define security principles and AppSec strategy for the engineering organization.
- Set policies for AI tools, agents, integrations, and data handling.
- Select, implement, manage, and automate EDR/MDR, endpoint management, email protection, and identity management controls.
- Lead ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification efforts as needed.
- Administer Google Workspace and build secure onboarding and offboarding processes.
- Represent security across the organization and work with infrastructure and operations teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or a related technical security role.
- Track record of building buy-in for security practices and earning the trust of non-security stakeholders.
- Experience building or significantly maturing a security program.
- Familiarity with cloud security, including AWS IAM, networking, and infrastructure review.
- Experience with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance frameworks.
- Hands-on endpoint management experience with Kandji, Jamf, or similar tools.
- Experience with identity and access management and administering Google Workspace or an equivalent.
- Interest in Apollo’s AI safety mission.
- Preferred qualifications include reviewing Terraform infrastructure-as-code and Python application code for security issues, serving as a security contact for external partners or customers, and demonstrated AI safety interest through work, coursework, or research.
Benefits
- Market-competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
- Flexible work hours and schedule, unlimited vacation, and unlimited sick leave.
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays.
- Paid work trips, staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences.
- $1,000 USD annual professional development budget.
- Full-time, in-person role based in the London office with flexible working hours and work-from-home arrangements.
- The company can sponsor UK visas.
About Apollo Research
Apollo Research evaluates and stress-tests frontier AI models for safety risks and builds security tools for agentic systems used by enterprise engineering teams. It works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others to run pre-deployment tests focused on deceptive behavior and loss-of-control risks, and sells Watcher, a coding-agent security product that monitors billions of tokens in production. Revenue comes from enterprise software and research partnerships with AI labs and agent-building companies.