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# Principal Imminent Risk (Law Enforcement) Specialist at 10a Labs

- **Company:** 10a Labs
- **Location:** Washington, DC
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs/jobs/4454745009

## Job description

About 10a Labs: 10a Labs is the safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Our adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection enable engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely.

Location & Travel Expectations

We are primarily seeking candidates based in the Washington, DC, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, and Denver metropolitan areas. Candidates hired in these locations will be expected to work from a 10a Labs office at least two days per week.

All new hires will participate in in-person onboarding in Washington, DC, New York City, or San Francisco during their first week. Occasional travel may also be required for interviews, in-person meetings, and other business needs.

## About the role

You’ll lead a 24/7 team of Senior and Junior Specialists while staying hands-on in the work. As the first hire, you’ll help us build the team from the ground up, from hiring and onboarding to setting up the processes that keep it running smoothly.

Schedule

This is a weekday daytime role, with no overnight or weekend shifts. However, some outside regular work hour flexibility is expected in order to  especially while we’re building the evening and overnight team.

## What you'll do

- Own the team’s success and run day-to-day operations across all three shifts, making sure the day, evening, and overnight teams have what they need to do their best work
- Cover senior specialist duties on the day shift: review and label content, handle edge cases and escalations from Junior Specialists, and flag imminent-risk cases in line with client guidance
- Build and maintain the team's shift schedule, including PTO, sick coverage, and weekend on-call rotations, so minimum coverage is never missed
- Stand up the team: run final interviews for Junior Specialists, onboard and train new hires, and set up team processes
- Own quality assurance: run calibration sessions, review QA results with the Senior Specialists, and address performance issues
- Set up and maintain touchpoints with the evening and overnight teams, including outside normal hours when needed
- Serve as 10a Labs' and the client’s main point of contact
- Support team wellbeing and support the Program Manager to build a healthy, sustainable work environment

## What we're looking for

- At least 4 years in law enforcement or related work
- Training in at least one relevant area: crisis intervention, threat assessment, or violent crime
- Investigative experience with violent content, credible threats, or violent extremist material
- Experience supervising shifts or teams
- Experience building and managing schedules for shift work (multi-shift or 24/7 operations)
- Comfortable reviewing distressing material on a regular basis
- Strong judgment on ambiguous, high-stakes cases
- Clear, confident communication with the Program Manager, team members, and client stakeholders
- Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity while standing up a new team, including working outside normal hours when needed

## Nice to have

- Experience launching a new team or operation
- Trust & Safety familiarity

Content and wellness

This role involves regular exposure to graphic and distressing content, including threats of violence and violent extremism. We take wellbeing seriously and provide dedicated mental health support and wellness resources.

## Requirements

- Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or other protected individual) based in the United States
- Must be able to pass a background check
- Reliable internet and a quiet, private workspace suitable for reviewing sensitive content

Employment and compensation

- This is a full-time, 12-month role supporting a client engagement, with the possibility of extension.
- Work Environment: Fully remote, U.S.-based
- Salary: 150,000 - 170,000 depending on experience and location
- Time Off: Generous PTO
- Retirement: 401(k) plan

## About 10a Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: 10a Labs is an applied research and technology company providing AI security, threat intelligence, and independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models and major technology platforms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, D.C., United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Bobby McKenzie (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Security & Safety, Threat Intelligence, Research Services
- **Target customers**: Frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "The safety and threat-intelligence layer trusted by frontier AI labs... enabling engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely."

## Products & Services
- **Model Evaluations & Red Teaming**: Independent safety evaluations for frontier AI models, built for EU AI Act compliance and regulatory readiness. Includes scaled red teaming technology stress-testing generative and agentic AI systems against high-priority threats (CBRNE, Cyber Harms, Data Exfiltration, Model Distillation, Terrorism, Fraud, and more).
- **Threat Intelligence (Scout)**: Real-time monitoring for emerging threats to frontier AI systems, with proprietary threat intelligence delivered via API. Covers malicious tooling, novel abuse patterns, unauthorized access pathways, credential resale, jailbreaks, and dark web monitoring.
- **Model Defense & Integrity (Spartan)**: Advanced R&D in agentic AI systems, ML and RL model-distillation risks, and multimodal adversarial defenses to strengthen AI security and robustness.
- **Data Center Risk Analysis**: Assessment of risks to data centers stemming from geopolitical, regulatory, jurisdictional, and operational challenges.
- **Classification System**: A proprietary production ML pipeline with datasets and taxonomies informed by deep subject-matter expertise to detect emerging abuse patterns across text and other modalities.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of approximately 36 employees (as of mid-2025), with strong growth (+172.2% year-over-year).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clients include frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Alumni have gone on to OpenAI, Microsoft, Verizon, and other tech leaders. Talent sourced from organizations like the U.S. Department of State, Columbia SIPA, and the United Nations University.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+172.2% YoY), 32 active job postings in mid-2025, quarterly job posting growth of +166.7% and yearly growth of +3100.0%, indicating aggressive expansion across multiple departments (Research, Engineering, Threat Investigation, Data, Operations).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Specialized Focus**: A rare company fully dedicated to AI safety, security, and threat intelligence for frontier models, serving as an independent, expert safety layer.
- **Deep Expertise**: Combines subject-matter expertise (e.g., CBRNE, cyber, terrorism) with proprietary ML pipelines and red teaming technology.
- **Trusted Client Base**: Serves the most advanced AI labs and largest tech platforms, providing a unique vantage point on emerging threats.
- **Regulatory Readiness**: Built to help clients comply with frameworks like the EU AI Act, positioning them as a critical partner in the evolving regulatory landscape.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Team**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, research, threat investigation, and operations to expand capacity.
- **Advancing R&D**: Deepening research into agentic AI risks, model distillation, and multimodal adversarial defenses.
- **Global Expansion**: Posting roles in multiple regions (US, UK, Australia, France), indicating international growth.
- **Product Development**: Continuing to build out their suite of safety, intelligence, and evaluation products (Scout, Spartan, Classification System).

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Mission**: Work directly on ensuring the safe deployment of the world's most advanced AI systems, addressing critical security and societal risks.
- **Compelling Compensation**: Salary ranges for technical roles are highly competitive (e.g., $255K–$405K + Equity for exceptional engineers, per a recent hiring post).
- **Rapid Growth Environment**: Join a company in a strong growth phase (+172% headcount growth), offering significant opportunities for impact and career advancement.
- **On-Site Collaborative Culture**: While some roles are remote, many positions are in-office (Washington D.C., San Francisco, London), emphasizing a collaborative, hands-on work environment.
- **Strong Talent Network**: Surrounded by colleagues from top institutions and government agencies (State Department, UN, Columbia SIPA, Michigan State), fostering a culture of expertise and mission-driven work.
- **Comprehensive Roles**: Opportunities span from hands-on red teaming and software engineering to research and operations, appealing to a wide range of skills and career paths.

## Sources
1. [10alabs.com](https://10alabs.com/)
2. [Built In - 10a Labs](https://builtin.com/company/10a-labs)
3. [LinkedIn - 10a Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/10a-labs)
4. [Greenhouse - 10a Labs Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs)

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