AI agents are being deployed everywhere, making high-stakes decisions and increasingly automating research itself. Yet their reliability and security remain unsolved technical problems, on a frontier that keeps shifting. Our mission at Exponential Security Labs is to secure agentic systems through self-improving red-teaming and guardrail agents, leveraging autonomous AI research. We sit at the intersection of safety and self-improvement, building on a decade of research in adversarial robustness and AI safety. We're looking for exceptional people to join us!
Tasks
As a founding member of technical staff, you will help us design and build a scalable ML system from the ground up. This includes:
* Build and maintain production ML/LLM systems
* Deploy, optimize, and monitor inference pipelines
* Evaluate models, build red-teaming agents and guardrails
* Improve reliability, latency, and cost of model serving
* Shape best practices around AI safety and reliability
Requirements
What we are looking for:
* MSc or PhD in ML, NLP, computer science, or related field
* Strong software and ML engineering fundamentals
* Experience deploying production LLM systems
* Works across infra, backend, and model integration
* High ownership, autonomy, bias toward execution
Benefits
We offer:
* Competitive compensation with equity
* Flexible hours, remote-friendly setup
* Generous vacation, learning & conference budget
* Top-tier equipment and tooling
* Growing team, low bureaucracy, direct impact
* Shape AI security from the ground up
We are a recently founded startup on agentic AI security based in Tübingen, Germany.