Platform Engineer Application Security
METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research) is an independent nonprofit research organization that evaluates frontier AI systems’ autonomous capabilities and catastrophic-risk potential.
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About METR
METR develops scientific methods and runs empirical evaluations of frontier AI systems, including autonomous-task capability, evaluation-integrity behavior, and mitigations, to inform public and policy decision-making about AI risks.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and build isolation, networking, and permission boundaries for evaluated agents. You will identify, triage, and remediate vulnerabilities; review code; implement IAM and least-privilege controls; and build systems that monitor and control agents securely.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering, software development, or an adjacent field
- Production backend or infrastructure engineering experience
- AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code security expertise
- Vulnerability remediation experience in large production systems
- Security knowledge across systems, networks, cloud, and identity
- Security code-review experience
Responsibilities
- Design and build isolation, networking, and permission boundaries for evaluated agents
- Find, triage, and remediate cloud infrastructure and access-control vulnerabilities
- Review code and resolve known security vulnerabilities
- Design and implement IAM policies, least-privilege access, and automated access reviews
- Design and implement systems to monitor and control agents securely