About the Role: Research & Incubation Focus

ActiveFence is seeking a Director to lead a dedicated Research Group focused on transforming cutting-edge AI safety and evaluation methodologies into scalable, repeatable offerings. This role is a unique blend of research leadership, entrepreneurship, and deep technical execution, with a mandate dedicated to incubating projects from zero to one.

You will serve as the internal and external expert driving our capability in agentic system evaluations and red teaming. Your primary responsibility is to translate theoretical research and bespoke service insights into structured, automated data products that are ready for deployment to Fortune 500 clients.

Core Responsibilities

Research & Incubation

Spearhead Greenfield Initiatives (from zero to one) to productize bespoke expertise. Launch successful POCs to validate market fit and technical feasibility. Work closely with Fortune 500 companies.

Agentic Evals & Red Teaming

Design/build scalable Agentic Evaluation Frameworks (LLM/multi-agent). Productize Red Teaming workflows into structured, data-driven solutions.

Automation

Leverage Prompt Engineering and LLM-driven Automation to scale adversarial evaluation.

Requirements:

• Proven ability to launch and scale solutions from research/consulting (entrepreneurial mindset).
• Expertise in AI Safety and security, Red Teaming of GenAI apps and Agents (fine-tune models by preference data, generate evaluation sets, etc)
• Deep technical skills: LLM-driven Automation, Data Engineering.
• Proficiency: LangChain, Python, Databricks (or equivalent).
• Must engage with clients and senior stakeholders to validate advanced offerings.
• A Plus: OSINT experience, data collection projects, and intelligence background
  
  

About ActiveFence:

ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day.

As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.