# AI Research Scientist, Agentic Systems (Remote)

Hiring organization: [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/5abf9d5e-85bd-467c-8e51-27ed84c10084

Listed on CrowdStrike's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: USA - Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 120000 – 180000 USD per year

## Summary

This role focuses on building AI agents and training large language models to automate cybersecurity workflows, working with real-world threat data and security operations processes. It suits researchers with deep machine learning expertise who want to apply post-training techniques like reinforcement learning to autonomous systems in a domain with unique, large-scale data.

_Our summary, not CrowdStrike's wording._

## Skills named

Hugging Face Transformers, Python, PyTorch, React, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- PhD-level understanding of modern machine learning research
- Experience training generative models and LLM fundamentals
- Core expertise in reinforcement learning and post-training techniques
- Experience building agentic systems with tool calling and memory management
- Fluency with PyTorch and the LLM training and serving stack
- Strong research engineering and experiment tracking practices
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous objectives
- Experience designing evals and benchmarks for LLM systems

## Nice to have

- Experience generating synthetic training data and agent trajectories
- Knowledge of inference-time scaling and test-time compute methods
- Experience with agent safety, guardrails, and abuse resistance
- Interpretability and failure analysis skills
- Open-source contributions and strong technical writing
- Cybersecurity domain knowledge or passion for applying ML to security
- Self-starter mentality and willingness to learn new technologies

Apply on CrowdStrike's site: https://crowdstrike.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/crowdstrikecareers/job/USA---Remote/Data-Scientist--Remote-_R29082-1