[Hiring] Senior Director, AI Security Systems @CrowdStrike

Role Description

We are looking for a Senior Director to build and lead the organization that turns the Lab’s research into AI security systems running in the real world. You will lead teams of engineers and research scientists who take frontier models and autonomous agents from promising results to production capabilities, on the Falcon sensor, where every millisecond, megabyte and CPU cycle counts, and across the cloud, where systems reason over trillions of events every day.

This role combines people leadership, technical depth and strategic influence. You will:

• Set the engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Hire and develop exceptional leaders.
• Own delivery of systems that customers depend on.
• Stay close enough to the technology to challenge architecture and debate model choices.
• Build for what is possible today while preparing for future capabilities.

If you have built and led the teams that shipped AI to stop adversaries in production, on the endpoint or at cloud scale, and you want to define what autonomous cyber defense looks like next, we want to talk.

What You'll Do

• Build and lead a world-class organization.
• Hire, lead and grow a multi-team organization of engineering managers, principal engineers and research scientists.
• Own the strategy and roadmap.
• Deliver frontier AI on the endpoint.
• Deliver AI at cloud scale.
• Take autonomous defense to production.
• Turn research into capability.
• Set the bar for trust and evaluation.
• Lead across CrowdStrike.
• Communicate with clarity.
• Represent CrowdStrike externally.

Qualifications

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics or a related technical field (advanced degree preferred).
• 15+ years of progressive industry experience in software engineering, machine learning or security engineering.
• 8+ years managing engineering or applied research teams.
• 4+ years leading managers across multiple teams.

Requirements

• Concrete experience building AI and security systems.
• Technical depth in modern AI.
• Security domain expertise.
• Experience leading teams that build distributed systems.
• Proven organizational leadership.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making.

Bonus Points

• Cybersecurity industry experience.
• Frontier AI lab experience.
• Adversarial and offensive AI experience.
• Experience leading extensible AI or agentic platforms.
• Experience standing up a new lab, research group or engineering organization.
• Recognized technical contributions.

Benefits

• Market leader in compensation and equity awards.
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs.
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge.
• Paid parental and adoption leaves.
• Professional development opportunities for all employees.
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities.
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities.
• Great Place to Work Certified™ across the globe.