MP
$270,000 – $345,000
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What this role is
This role leads quantitative and qualitative security risk analysis for an AI safety company, translating ambiguous risk questions into decision-ready recommendations for leadership using FAIR methodology and simulation. The analyst partners with security engineering to prioritize investment and shapes how the organization measures and manages security risk as it scales.
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What they ask for
Required
- Own security or technology risk analysis end-to-end, with evidence of influencing a material decision
- Hands-on FAIR-style quantification including scenario decomposition, calibrated estimation, and simulation
- Frame ambiguous problems into analyzable work and drive to decision
- Assign defensible severity and likelihood to uncertain problems and state uncertainty honestly
- Technical security depth to decompose attack paths with engineers
- Distill complex risk positions into executive summaries and defend under questioning
- Use LLMs as daily working tools with critical review of outputs
Nice to have
- Applied FAIR-CAM or structured control effectiveness and attack path modeling
- Built or operated a cyber risk quantification program or turned analysis into tooling and training
- Helped define risk appetite or tolerance thresholds used in actual decisions
- Background in security engineering, detection, threat intelligence, actuarial science, or decision science
- Familiarity with AI-specific security risks such as goal or intent modification