AI Security Researcher

AI in this role

openaianthropic

ai-agents

THE OPPORTUNITY

Apollo Research works with most frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Thinking Machines and others) to test their models before deployment and collaborate on fundamental scheming research. Our coding agent security product, Watcher, is deployed in production and monitors billions of agent tokens per month across engineering teams at agent-building scale-ups and enterprise.

Security exists at Apollo to safeguard the trust frontier labs place in us and to enable that research. Our own team uses AI agents extensively across its work, which makes Apollo both a target and a testbed. We’re hiring AI Security Researchers to join the Infra & Security Team.

In this role, you will identify, research and remediate both conventional threats and the novel risks introduced by AI agents that can affect Apollo and our mission. You will redefine and work on a new class of insider risk that didn’t exist before.

How we rate this

AI Security Researcher at Apollo Research rates 42 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

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A free preview built only from this posting: what it asks for, what you could be asked in an interview, and how to adjust your resume.

Skills and AI tools this role asks for

AI AgentsOpenAIAnthropic

Questions you could be asked

How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
Walk me through how you've used OpenAI in your day-to-day work.
What are the limits of Anthropic that you've run into, and how did you work around them?
This role expects you to use AI tools as part of the job. Which ones have you used, and for what?
Tell me about a time an AI tool got something wrong. How did you catch it?

Adapt your resume

List these exact terms on your resume: AI Agents, OpenAI, and Anthropic. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them — a tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list — this role treats it as a required part of the job.

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