Platform Engineer, Application Security

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Our technical team members are in our office in Berkeley 3-5 days/week. Please let us know in your application if this is a constraint.

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We are a nonprofit research organization that develops scientific methods to assess AI capabilities, risks, and mitigations, with a specific focus on threats related to AI R&D automation and misalignment.

We believe it is robustly good for policymakers and civil society to have a clear understanding of risks from AI systems, and we are extremely excited to build a team of ambitious, excellent people to tackle one of the most important challenges of our time.

METR’s mission of enabling transparency and coordination about the risks of frontier AI requires a high degree of trust from frontier AI labs, governments, and the public. As misalignment incidents become more extreme and confidential information about models and frontier AI labs becomes more valuable, we expect to be under increasingly intense pressure from external actors and internal agents.

METR is looking to expand the security expertise on our platform team. This would span application security in our evaluation platform, sandboxing agents and evaluations, cloud platform security, networking, access control for both people and agents, and securing our development environments and workflows. This role will have a large engineering component: expect to write and review code, fix vulnerabilities, and design and develop secure systems.

Production software engineering. You have experience building and operating backend or infrastructure in practice.

Cloud and container security. You have deep familiarity with AWS (especially non-trivial IAM), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code environments.

Vulnerability remediation. You have found and fixed security flaws in large production systems and can prioritize a remediation backlog.

Security fundamentals. Strong security knowledge across systems, networks, cloud, and identity, and a track record of applying it to real systems. Experienced in designing secure software and cloud architectures.

Code review. Reviewing and giving constructive security feedback on PRs, including from the FOSS community.

Detection engineering at scale: Experience with detection pipelines (DataDog SIEM, AWS SecurityHub), writing and tuning detections, and threat hunting.

Offensive security: Experience with red teaming, penetration testing, and/or vulnerability research.

AI/LLM engineering: You build with AI: agent pipelines, LLM-powered tooling, automated workflows, and understand current limitations of those tools.

AI security research: Familiarity with agent control, hardware security, or red teaming AI systems themselves.

Ideally you have experience with a portion of these technologies:

AWS: cloud-native software platforms

EKS

Lambda

ECS

IAM (in-depth)

CloudWatch

SecurityHub & GuardDuty

PostgreSQL: RLS, serverless Aurora

Pulumi: IaC

DataDog: SIEM

Okta: IdP

Google Workspace: IdP

Tailscale: networking

CrowdStrike Falcon: endpoint security

Our Culture

METR is a mission-driven organization. We believe our work can meaningfully shape humanity's future for the better, and we want to be the best people in the world doing this work. We have a tight-knit, collaborative research culture rooted in truth-seeking and integrity. We're fiercely committed to producing high-quality, trustworthy science. We're honest and transparent about our results, especially when they may go against the grain. We've earned trust as reliable partners who handle confidential information with care. We maintain a low-ego, drama-free environment focused on what matters.

Hybrid Requirements: Our technical team members are in our office in Berkeley 3-5 days/week. Please let us know in your application if this is a constraint. If you lack US work authorization and would like to work in-person (strongly preferred), we can likely sponsor a cap-exempt H-1B visa for this role.

We encourage you to apply even if your background may not seem like the perfect fit! We would rather review a larger pool of applications than risk missing out on a promising candidate for the position.

We are committed to diversity and equal opportunity in all aspects of our hiring process. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We welcome and encourage all qualified candidates to apply for our open positions.