Lead AI research to advance cybersecurity capabilities of large language models and autonomous AI agents through post‑training, evaluation, and dataset development.
Compensation
$163,200.00 - $264,000.00/yr
Responsibilities
Develop high‑quality security datasets, including synthetic data, hard negatives, adversarial examples, expert annotations, and model‑generated trajectories.
Build reliable graders, verifiers, and reward signals using tests, compilation, runtime behavior, security‑tool outputs, detection results, vulnerability reproduction, and other domain‑specific validation methods.
Design reproducible training and evaluation environments for complex cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability research, threat analysis, detection, investigation, remediation, secure coding, and autonomous security workflows.
Develop and evaluate post‑training methods including supervised fine‑tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, reward modeling, rejection sampling, and distillation.
Build iterative model‑improvement loops using model rollouts, verifier feedback, expert review, synthetic data generation, and failure‑driven data collection.
Requirements
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have: reinforcement learning
Principal Engineer Software, AppSec (Chronosphere)
As a hands‑on Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role within the infrastructure engineering team, defining and building core security engineering efforts to create a foundational security infrastructure used across the entire company.
Compensation
$156,400.00 - $253,000.00/yr
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and work with other engineering teams to operate security tools and programs across the organization, including access control & workflows, vulnerability management, and detection/response systems.
Collaborate with other engineers and with the business to identify the highest priority needs of the organization, and maintain a roadmap to address those needs.
Actively participate in design reviews, threat modeling, and incident analysis.
Help teams make high‑quality security decisions, especially in ambiguous situations.
Set the bar for security, ownership, and quality across engineering.
Lead AI research to advance cybersecurity capabilities of large language models and autonomous agents.
Compensation
$163,200.00 - $264,000.00/yr
Responsibilities
Develop high-quality security data, realistic training and evaluation environments, reliable graders, and post-training methods for complex cybersecurity tasks spanning vulnerability research, threat analysis, detection, investigation, remediation, secure coding, and autonomous security workflows.
Design reproducible training and evaluation environments for complex cybersecurity tasks.
Transform source-code repositories, vulnerabilities, security incidents, malware samples, threat intelligence, detection logic, patches, test harnesses, and security tools into structured tasks for LLMs and AI agents.
Build reliable graders, verifiers, and reward signals using tests, compilation, runtime behavior, security-tool outputs, detection results, vulnerability reproduction, and other domain-specific validation methods.
Design evaluations for security reasoning, code understanding, threat analysis, root-cause analysis, tool use, long-horizon execution, and autonomous task completion.
Requirements
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have: reinforcement learning
Senior Security Architect
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP · Posted Aug 20, 2026
Develop and lead a modern security architecture framework, drive evaluation and governance of security solutions, and embed security controls across hybrid environments.
Compensation
NY Only: The estimated base salary range for this position is $190,000 to $240,000 at the time of posting.
Responsibilities
Define, establish, and continuously evolve the enterprise security architecture framework aligned to business and technology strategy
Develop and maintain target-state security architecture roadmaps
Participate in Firm’s IT architecture review board to ensure new initiatives adhere to security strategy
Architect and guide secure implementations across hybrid environments
Establish and enforce secure configuration management and system hardening standards
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in information security, IT, related discipline, or equivalent experience
Provide first- and second-level technical support for end users, troubleshoot hardware, software, and network issues, and maintain IT equipment and documentation.
Compensation
Competitive salary package and bonus scheme
Responsibilities
Provide first- and second-level support for end users via phone, email, or in person
Diagnose and resolve hardware, software, and network issues
Install, configure, and maintain desktop computers, laptops, printers, and mobile devices
Escalate complex issues to internal IT Teams when necessary
Install and configure operating systems, business applications, and security tools
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Nice to have: 1–3 years of experience in IT support or helpdesk role
Lead Canonical’s Security Operations (SecOps) team to design, implement, and evolve security practices, tools, and policies for the company’s infrastructure and products.
Responsibilities
Hire and mentor a team of technical security professionals
Define Canonical’s SecOps security standards and playbooks
Own and drive the architecture and design of the SOC
Analyse and improve Canonical’s security architecture
Evaluate, select and implement new security tools and practices
Freelance Features Writer for MakeUseOf, covering tech verticals such as home automation, AI, homelab, PC hardware, maker projects, and core operating systems.
Responsibilities
Proactively pitch creative, original feature ideas while regularly claiming assigned topics from the editorial board.
Write clear, engaging, and structurally sound feature articles that simplify complex technical concepts.
Test software, hardware, or workflows hands-on to provide authentic, step-by-step guidance and technical analysis.
Input, format, and structure articles inside our in-house CMS according to style guidelines (including screenshots, formatting, and link insertion).
Work collaboratively with section editors to refine pitches and incorporate feedback.
Serve, alongside the Technical Support Team Coordinator, as the primary leader for the Technical Support Team (~20 Technical Support Specialists, Senior Technical Support Specialists, and Junior System Administrators).
Act as the team’s first technical escalation point; help resolve difficult tickets, ensure the root cause is addressed, and escalate issues beyond the team’s scope to the Systems Administration Team or leadership with a clear problem statement.
Spend a significant part of each day on the floor: walking around, checking on work in progress, helping techs solve problems, and catching issues before they become client escalations.
Review tickets and resolutions regularly to ensure solutions are complete, documented, and aligned with S. J. Rollins standards; give specific feedback.
Identify recurring issues and process friction; drive fixes through documentation, training, or by routing them to the Systems Administration Team and leadership.
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