Strategic Projects Lead, Red Team

<p>Scale's Red Team and Safety function stress-tests the most capable AI models in the world, and shapes how labs, governments, and enterprises deploy them. We are hiring a Strategic Partnerships Lead to own day-to-day partnerships with frontier model developers. This is a hands-on role for someone who is technically curious, comfortable with researchers, and operationally rigorous. You will partner closely with research, operations, and go-to-market.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>The team</strong></p> <p>Red Team and Safety is a nimble function that stress-tests frontier AI. We partner with major model developers to generate adversarial data, run evaluations, and publish benchmarks across jailbreaks, prompt injection, agentic misuse, LLM-based cyber security, CBRN, political bias, and self-harm. Our work shapes how leading labs train their models and how governments and enterprises deploy them.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>You will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own a portfolio of frontier-lab partnerships day-to-day. Run customer conversations, scope new engagements, and grow accounts from one-off projects into ongoing scope.</li> <li>Act as a credible subject-matter expert in customer conversations; explain adversarial methodology, vulnerability taxonomies, benchmark findings, and what they imply commercially, in language that lands with technical buyers.</li> <li>Partner with Enterprise and Public Sector account teams to qualify and close opportunities where safety, red teaming, or LLM-based cyber security are part of the deal.</li> <li>Coordinate delivery with research and operations leads. Make sure scope, capacity, and timelines line up before we commit, and unblock the team as engagements run.</li> <li>Contribute to public benchmark launches. Help shape the framing, the rollout, and the narrative we take to customers and the field.</li> <li>Feed signal back into the roadmap. Surface what customers are asking for, what is breaking, and what we should build next.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Ideally, you would have:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Working fluency in model behavior, adversarial ML, and AI safety, enough to hold a substantive conversation with researchers and ML engineers.</li> <li>Experience managing technical accounts or partnerships, ideally with frontier AI labs, large enterprises, or federal agencies.</li> <li>Genuine interest in AI safety, evidenced in prior work, writing, or research.</li> <li>Strong written and verbal communication and the ability to translate between research and commercial audiences.</li> <li>Operational rigor; you scope carefully, track commitments, and keep complex engagements moving.</li> <li>Comfort with ambiguity and a bias tow