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title: 'Threat Investigation Engineer at 10a Labs'
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# Threat Investigation Engineer at 10a Labs

- **Company:** 10a Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs/jobs/4467496009

## 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.

Threat Investigation Engineer (Backend/Platform)

Remote | 1-year Contract

## About the Role

We are seeking a Threat Investigation Engineer to build, improve, and support AI-powered systems used in high-stakes safety and threat investigations.

This is a hands-on software engineering role combining backend development, production troubleshooting, and platform reliability. You'll work closely with investigators and engineering teams to develop practical solutions, improve existing workflows, and ensure critical investigation systems operate reliably.

The ideal candidate is a strong Python engineer with experience building and maintaining production applications, troubleshooting complex systems, and integrating AI-powered capabilities. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguous technical challenges, working directly with end users, and taking ownership of solutions from initial problem definition through deployment and ongoing support.

This position includes participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including weekend and holiday coverage, to support critical investigation workflows.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop, test, and maintain backend services and AI-assisted applications that support threat investigation workflows.
- Partner directly with investigators to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate requirements into practical engineering solutions.
- Build and integrate AI-powered features, APIs, and services that improve the efficiency, accuracy, and reliability of investigation processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues, including failed workflows, processing delays, data inconsistencies, and system errors.
- Participate in rotating on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays, to diagnose issues, implement fixes, and escalate when necessary.
- Improve system reliability and observability through monitoring, logging, automated testing, documentation, and operational tooling.
- Investigate complex technical issues across backend services, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to deploy improvements, maintain system stability, and support evolving operational needs.
- Own engineering tasks end-to-end, from understanding user requirements and designing solutions to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.

## What We're Looking For

- Strong software engineering experience, particularly in Python and backend application development.
- Experience with platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or production operations.
- Experience building, deploying, debugging, and maintaining production software systems.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, backend services, asynchronous processing, and system integrations.
- Practical experience working with AI-powered applications, LLM APIs, or model-assisted development tools.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and resolve complex production issues.
- Experience supporting production environments, including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Ability to independently scope technical problems, prioritize work, and deliver maintainable solutions.
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Sound judgment when handling sensitive information, operational incidents, and time-sensitive technical challenges.
- Availability to participate in scheduled on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays.

## Nice to Have

- Experience with asynchronous job processing, background workers, task queues, or distributed systems.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience building internal tools, workflow automation, or investigator-facing applications.
- Familiarity with observability tools, structured logging, alerting, and incident management practices.
- Experience working in cybersecurity, trust and safety, threat intelligence, or other high-stakes operational environments.

Additional Information

- Employment Type: 1 year contract, 40 hours full-time
- Compensation: $160,000 - $200,000
- Location: Remote
- Schedule: Includes rotating on-call coverage, with weekend and holiday availability required.

This role supports sensitive safety and threat investigations and may involve exposure to potentially distressing case information.

## 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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