Staff AI Security Scientist

As a global leader in cybersecurity, CrowdStrike protects the people, processes and technologies that drive modern organizations. Since 2011, our mission hasn’t changed — we’re here to stop breaches, and we’ve redefined modern security with the world’s most advanced AI-native platform. We work on large scale distributed systems, processing almost 3 trillion events per day and this traffic is growing daily. Our customers span all industries, and they count on CrowdStrike to keep their businesses running, their communities safe and their lives moving forward. We're proud to work for a mission-driven company leveraging AI to transform the way we work. CrowdStrikers drive their careers through flexibility and autonomy while also being expected to contribute to a culture of responsible AI adoption, experimentation, and innovation. We use an AI-first mindset as a force multiplier to proactively and continuously accelerate execution, build expertise, uncover insights, and solve complex problems. We’re always looking to add talented CrowdStrikers to the team who have limitless passion, a relentless focus on innovation and a fanatical commitment to our customers, our community and each other. Ready to join a mission that matters? The future of cybersecurity starts with you.

About the Role

The frontier of cybersecurity is being reimagined by AI, and the defenders who win the next decade will be the ones who leverage agents that actually work in the constraints of the environment. We’re looking for an applied research lead to take on both sides (offensive and defensive) of this frontier and help turn it into products.

In this role, you’ll set the scientific direction for our agentic AI work and lead the research behind the next generation of security products. The problems span the full stack: post-training small, efficient models; designing and tuning the harnesses; and developing the evaluation and verification methodologies that give us rigor around if