Distinguished Engineer, Frontier Agentic AI (Remote)
CrowdStrike4 days ago
Base Salary
$235k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define research directions and technical approaches for future cybersecurity AI capabilities.
- Design and build end-to-end AI and agentic systems that combine models, reasoning, tools, security data, and execution environments.
- Develop systems that improve through investigations, simulations, adversary behavior, expert feedback, and training signals.
- Build benchmarks, cyber environments, and evaluation harnesses measuring efficacy, reliability, performance, and cost.
- Lead consequential research and architecture decisions, mentor senior technical talent, and set technical direction across teams.
- Translate research breakthroughs into scalable systems operating on high-volume security data and adaptive adversaries.
- Represent CrowdStrike through publications, open-source contributions, collaborations, and engagement with AI and cybersecurity communities.
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Neuroscience, or a related quantitative field.
- Sustained record of original work at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.
- Deep cybersecurity expertise in areas such as threat hunting, detection and response, vulnerability research, adversary behavior, security analytics, or security automation.
- Hands-on experience architecting and building end-to-end AI systems combining models, reasoning, tools, data, and execution environments.
- Strong applied research and quantitative skills, including hypothesis formation, experiment design, baselines, and evidence-based analysis.
- Experience taking sophisticated ML or AI systems from research prototypes to real-world deployment.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, including setting direction, mentoring senior talent, and influencing major decisions.
- Experience with autonomous or multi-agent systems, long-horizon reasoning, adversary simulation, or closed-loop security systems.
- Experience with adversarial learning, reinforcement learning, model post-training, synthetic data, or related AI improvement methods.
- Experience building AI systems for high-volume, latency-sensitive cybersecurity environments.
- Experience architecting extensible AI or agentic platforms for developing, evaluating, optimizing, and deploying AI applications at scale.
- Contributions to influential research, open-source software, or technical communities spanning AI and cybersecurity.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement.
- Base salary of $235,000-$350,000 per year for U.S. candidates, plus bonus and equity eligibility.
- Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
- Competitive vacation and holidays, paid parental and adoption leave.
- Professional development opportunities, employee networks, volunteer opportunities, and office amenities.
- Health insurance, 401k, and paid time off.
Categories
AI Research
About CrowdStrike
CrowdStrike builds the Falcon cloud-native security platform used by enterprises and governments to protect endpoints, cloud workloads, identities, and data with EDR, next-generation antivirus, threat intelligence, and managed threat hunting. Founded in 2011 and publicly traded on NASDAQ as CRWD, the company sells primarily by subscription and also provides incident response services; its systems ingest and analyze nearly 3 trillion security events per day across customer environments.