Founding Member of Technical Staff
Job Summary
AI agents are being deployed everywhere making high-stakes decisions and increasingly automating research itself. Yet their reliability and security remain unsolved technical problems on a frontier that keeps shifting. Our mission at Exponential Security Labs is to secure agentic systems through self-improving red-teaming and guardrail agents leveraging autonomous AI research. We sit at the intersection of safety and self-improvement building on a decade of research in adversarial robustness and AI safety. Were looking for exceptional people to join us!
As a founding member of technical staff you will help us design and build a scalable ML system from the ground up. This includes:
- Build and maintain production ML/LLM systems
- Deploy optimize and monitor inference pipelines
- Evaluate models build red-teaming agents and guardrails
- Improve reliability latency and cost of model serving
- Shape best practices around AI safety and reliability
What we are looking for:
- MSc or PhD in ML NLP computer science or related field
- Strong software and ML engineering fundamentals
- Experience deploying production LLM systems
- Works across infra backend and model integration
- High ownership autonomy bias toward execution
We offer:
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Flexible hours remote-friendly setup
- Generous vacation learning & conference budget
- Top-tier equipment and tooling
- Growing team low bureaucracy direct impact
- Shape AI security from the ground up
About Company
We are a recently founded startup on agentic AI security based in Tübingen Germany.