Cyber Researcher

Pattern Labs

📍 Remote (Global)
🕔 Full Time
🔄 Rolling Applications

As a cyber researcher at Pattern Labs, you will be at the forefront of research on AI models' cyber capabilities (such as AI’s ability to discover vulnerabilities and develop exploits, carry out network attacks, etc.). This role sits at a unique intersection of cybersecurity expertise and AI capabilities, where your background in vulnerability and cyber research will help shape the future of AI security.

Representative projects:

• Leading research projects, based on your vulnerability knowledge and cyber research expertise, in which you will be developing new research methods and ideas for tackling the emerging field of advanced AI cyber capabilities.

• Expanding the quantity, quality, and variety of our cyber capabilities evaluation challenges (e.g. constructing original CTF-style vulnerability & exploitation challenges, HackTheBox-style network attack challenges, and more, including original types of challenges).

• Publishing your research and delivering research to our customers.

• Advising and supporting the development of the products we’re building, which our customers use to evaluate AI models.

Representative research questions about AI frontier models:

• Can an AI find and exploit 0-days?

• What’s the best way to measure a CTF challenge's difficulty level vs. an AI player's skill level?

• How to prevent an advanced AI model from “escaping the lab” into the wrong hand?

• Can an AI elevate an average computer science student’s cyber capabilities to that of a nation-state?

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have a strong background in vulnerability discovery and exploit research and analysis

• Work well in a multidisciplinary team and can adapt to rapidly evolving challenges

• Are interested in responsible AI development and care about the societal impact of your work