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Corridor · 1 day ago

AI Research Lead

positionSan Francisco
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityLead/Staff

Corridor is a company revolutionizing product security at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. They are seeking an AI Research Lead to own and drive their AI direction, set the AI agenda, and build a world-class research team.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySecurity
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Responsibilities

Lead Corridor’s AI research efforts in code understanding, vulnerability detection, and agentic security systems
Publish research that establishes Corridor as a leader at the intersection of AI and security
Build and ship production AI systems – from development to deployment
Define the technical roadmap for our AI capabilities
Recruit and mentor a world-class AI research team
Collaborate and initiate partnerships with top AI researchers and frontier labs
Collaborate with our AI advisory board (researchers from Stanford and leading AI labs). Some of our angels include Russell Kaplan (Cognition), Thomas Wolf (HuggingFace), Jonathan Frankle (Databricks), Mike Krieger (Anthropic)

Qualification

AI researchMachine LearningCybersecurityCode generationProgram analysisLeadershipSelf-directedOpen source contributionsLLM-powered systemsModel evaluationTechnical writing

Required

Research track record: You've published research in ML/AI in fields relative to Corridor's work (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, security venues, or equivalent)
Applied experience: You've shipped AI systems to production. You will be writing code!
Relevant domain expertise: You have experience in code generation, program analysis, or cybersecurity
Self-directed: You can identify high-impact problems and execute without heavy oversight
Leadership: You're excited to build and lead a team and have experience doing so

Preferred

Experience with LLM-powered code generation or multi-agent systems
Open source contributions or public technical writing
Experience with RL environments, fine-tuning, or model evaluation pipelines

Company

Corridor

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Corridor provides a security platform that guides AI coding tools and reviews code in real time.
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://corridor.dev/

H1B Sponsorship

Corridor has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2023 (2)
2021 (2)
2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$5.4M
Key Investors
Conviction
2025-08-05Seed· $5.4M
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