AI Researcher

We’re hiring our first dedicated AI Researcher to advance the core models powering Ares. You’ll work alongside our VP of AI Engineering and a small AI engineering team, with direct collaboration with our CEO - a researcher and practitioner with 26 years of offensive security experience, contributions to the OWASP API Security Top 10, and a permanent exhibit at The Mob Museum.

• Direct work with at least one of: RL from verifier or reward signals, preference optimization (DPO/IPO/KTO), or supervised fine-tuning with synthetic data pipelines \n

• Experience with agentic LLM systems - tool use, multi-step reasoning, planning, or long-horizon execution \n

• Ability to design evaluation that measures real capability and avoids contamination or specification gaming \n

• Strong Python and PyTorch, with experience in distributed training at multi-GPU scale \n

• Clear technical writing - research memos, experiment writeups, papers, or equivalent, * Working knowledge of offensive security fundamentals (we’ll teach you the rest if you bring strong ML depth)