METR’s mission of enabling transparency and coordination about the risks of frontier AI requires a high degree of trust from frontier AI labs, governments, and the public. As misalignment incidents become more extreme and confidential information about models and frontier AI labs becomes more valuable, we expect to be under increasingly intense pressure from external actors and internal agents.
As METR’s CISO, you will own METR’s overall security posture, proactively planning against future threats and ensuring our security strategy grows as the organization does. This includes managing penetration testing, threat modeling, incident investigation and response, and preventing our internal agents from undermining our security posture, covering both technical and administrative security**.** This role does not involve building or managing a large engineering team, although you will be working closely with our platform, infrastructure, and operations teams.
We expect this role to be essential as METR scales - our values, brand and mission requirements imply taking security and confidentiality very seriously. We must be justifiably viewed as secure, professional, and reliable, and are willing to impose costly actions on our staff to achieve this.