AfterQuery
AfterQuery

Strategic Projects Lead- AI Safety

Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, CA
$130K - $150K (OTE: $260K - $450K)

On average, total comp regularly exceeds base by 2-3x (and by 4-5x for top performers)

About this role

What we're looking for:

We are seeking a highly driven individual with experience in a high-intensity environment like management consulting, investment banking, or a fast-paced startup. You should be comfortable owning client relationships and project execution from end-to-end, with a track record of delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines. We're looking for someone who is scrappy, hungry, and willing to grind to push the frontiers of AI.

What you'll do:

  • Work closely with the world’s leading AI labs to generate next generation datasets to push the boundaries of AI to the limits, directly generating revenue for the company

  • Manage teams of experts across a wide variety of domains, like finance, software engineering, and sciences

  • Collaborate with internal teams to develop groundbreaking AI research

  • Drive initiatives across the company as an early hire

  • Support the team across various operational initiatives

in AI safety, red teaming, trust & safety, adversarial ML, or security research
Salary
$130K - $150K (OTE: $260K - $450K) (On average, total comp regularly exceeds base by 2-3x (and by 4-5x for top performers))
Equity
Meaningful equity
Visa sponsorship details
Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)
Additional visa sponsorship details
US-based candidates are preferred, but we are open to sponsoring visas for exceptional candidates. No new H1Bs.
On-site work policy
Team members are typically in office 6 days/week (Not rigid as long as you get all your work done).
Full-time position
Location
San Francisco, CA
About AfterQuery

AfterQuery is helping push the frontier of LLMs and AI Agents through novel datasets and experimentation. We work on building the most complex infrastructure that powers frontier data creation for agentic and hard reasoning workflows. We work the leading AI labs and are becoming the go-to partner for data infrastructure for YC companies. We have a sharp hockey stick growth rate and are extremely talent-dense, with most of our founding team coming from top IB and quant firms.

Team size

85 employees

Founded

2024

LinkedIn

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Total funding

$34M

Company locations

FiDi (SF)
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About the team

Our co-founders bring expertise from quantitative trading at Citadel Securities, SWE at Google and Meta, and PE at Morgan Stanley and Silver Lake. Our founding team comes from rigorous environments in tech and finance—Jane Street, Goldman Sachs, and Bloomberg—where they've proven they can ship at the highest level.


This is a young, hungry team eager to build something massive together.


You'll work alongside people who've already done hard things and are now channeling that intensity into pushing the frontier of AI. The culture is tight-knit and collaborative—fast iteration, open communication, and a genuine sense of camaraderie where the team has become close friends while moving at breakneck speed. If you're looking to work with exceptional people who take ownership and ship relentlessly, this is that team!


We're looking to expand our engineering team into LATAM.