Work With Pattern Labs

Joining the Pattern Labs team is an opportunity to work in an emerging field and contribute to shaping the future of secure and responsible AI development.
(For our process, see below)

5 Open Positions

Cyber Researcher

As a cyber researcher at Pattern Labs, you will be at the forefront of research on AI models' cyber capabilities (such as AI’s ability to discover vulnerabilities and develop exploits, carry out network attacks, etc.). This role sits at a unique intersection of cybersecurity expertise and AI capabilities, where your background in vulnerability and cyber research will help shape the future of AI security.

Representative projects:

  • Leading research projects, based on your vulnerability knowledge and cyber research expertise, in which you will be developing new research methods and ideas for tackling the emerging field of advanced AI cyber capabilities.
  • Expanding the quantity, quality, and variety of our cyber capabilities evaluation challenges (e.g. constructing original CTF-style vulnerability & exploitation challenges, HackTheBox-style network attack challenges, and more, including original types of challenges).
  • Publishing your research and delivering research to our customers.
  • Advising and supporting the development of the products we’re building, which our customers use to evaluate AI models.

Representative research questions about AI frontier models:

  • Can an AI find and exploit 0-days?
  • What’s the best way to measure a CTF challenge's difficulty level vs. an AI player's skill level?
  • How to prevent an advanced AI model from “escaping the lab” into the wrong hand?
  • Can an AI elevate an average computer science student’s cyber capabilities to that of a nation-state?

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Have a strong background in vulnerability discovery and exploit research and analysis
  • Work well in a multidisciplinary team and can adapt to rapidly evolving challenges
  • Are interested in responsible AI development and care about the societal impact of your work
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Software Engineer

As a software developer at Pattern Labs, you’ll touch all aspects of our product and business: making our product more reliable at scale, designing and implementing AI evaluations, creating dev tools, and running experiments to assess model capabilities. You’ll have a chance to understand the research context and your code’s impact and contribute as a meaningful part of a growing team.

Representative projects:

  • Building a tool to evaluate model risk levels continuously. From designing the APIs for frontier labs, to building analysis and visualization tools that summarize 10,000+ transcripts into specific conclusions.
  • Designing and building challenges that measure a model’s ability to evade discovery, allowing us to see if models can operate on remote systems while avoiding detection by common defensive security tools.
  • Building infrastructure that generates evaluations at scale. Given a specific evaluation, it must create 100+ challenges that an LLM can attempt to solve that are meaningfully different from each other.
  • Designing and building agents that improve a model’s ability to complete complex tasks. Includes many potential directions such as incorporating SOTA prompting practices creating tools for task delegation, and more.

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Have strong problem-solving and analytical skills
  • Have strong production programming skills
  • Work well in a multidisciplinary team and can adapt to rapidly evolving challenges
  • Are interested in AI and cybersecurity (experience in machine learning or cybersecurity is a plus but not necessary)
  • Care about the societal impacts of your work
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AI Researcher

As an AI researcher at Pattern Labs, you'll be at the forefront of researching advanced frontier model capabilities, agent behavior, and help shape the future of AI security evaluation and mitigation.

Representative projects:

  • Researching capability elicitation methods to enhance model performance in safety evaluations
  • Researching methodologies to assess generalization and coverage in model capabilities evaluation frameworks
  • Contributing to academic publications and delivering research findings to customers

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Have a strong research experience in machine learning, particularly with frontier language models
  • Phd in a relevant field or MSc with industry research experience
  • Demonstrate expertise in AI evaluation methodologies
  • Can design and implement novel research approaches for emerging AI challenges
  • Work well in a multidisciplinary team and can adapt to rapidly evolving research questions
  • Have a track record of publishing research in relevant fields (conferences like NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, or similar)
  • Care about the societal impacts of AI development and are committed to responsible innovation
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Policy Researcher

Representative responsebilities:

  • Following up on publications and news on AI policy, AI risks and mitigations, and technical AI research
  • Qualitative research: deep dive on different topics, composing useful categorizations, and experiment planning. 
  • Writing products: academic papers, blog posts, policy papers, as well as recommendations, tables, and lists for policymakers, research partners, and clients.

The role requires

  • Great writing skills, and experience as an academic (or industry equivalent) writer or analyst
  • Interest in AI and specifically AI security
  • Technological understanding and background- Knowledge of cybersecurity domains is an advantage, but not a requirement
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Operations facilitator

We are seeking an operations professional excited about our AI security mission and eager to be part of our scaling up. As an operations facilitator, you will handle day-to-day operational processes, including vendor relations, compliance, contracts, and internal policies.

Representative responsebilities:

  • Process and maintain vendor contracts and relationships
  • Support compliance processes and documentation
  • Track contract deliverables and deadlines
  • Maintain internal policies and documentation
  • Support recruiting and employee welfare processes

The role requires

  • Experience in streamlining and scaling internal processes
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • Strong communication skills
  • Tech industry, specifically start up scaling up- an advantage.
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Hiring Process

The hiring process at Pattern Labs varies based on role and candidate, but our complete standard process will include the following stages:

  1. Job Application
    CV and additional information submitted via this link.
  2. Brief Exploratory Chat
    A 15-minute online chat with one of our senior staff members to discuss your interests and experience and for candidates to learn more about Pattern Labs.
  3. Take-Home Assignment
    Assignments usually take ±5 hours, depending on the role.
    There would be no hard deadline.
  4. In-Depth Exploratory Chat.
    A deeper, face-to-face conversation with someone in the intended managerial chain.
  5. Interviews Day
    2-3 one hour to an hour and a half technical interviews, plus an organizational fit interview with a member of our leadership (usually at our office, could be split to acomodate schedule).
  6. References
    References and final checks.
    At this stage there could be one more professional step at most.
  7. Offer
    We’ll contact prospective candidates with an offer.

Note: We included multiple steps to inform our hiring decisions better (even though, as mentioned, not all people go through all of the steps). We recognize that going through the process requires time and effort; nonetheless, we think that using a variety of tools (tests, interviews, reference checks, etc.) is essential to reduce biases and help you showcase your strengths. In this spirit, we will do our best to accommodate requests to set each stage at a convenient timing.

To make the process maximally useful to you, you should feel very comfortable asking us questions about Pattern Labs in any conversation, and we plan the interviews to include enough time for you to do that.