SecurAI Talent · USA · Europe · MENA
AI Security Recruitment
SecurAI Talent is the world’s first recruitment agency dedicated entirely to AI security. We place AI safety engineers, red teamers, adversarial machine learning researchers, ML security and MLSecOps engineers and AI governance leaders for frontier labs, AI scale-ups and global enterprises across the USA, Europe and the Middle East.
AI security hiring is the whole business, not a vertical
Most agencies bolted an AI security page onto a general cyber desk. We built the firm the other way round. Every brief here is run by someone who understands threat models, model attack surface and the technical work itself, which is why our shortlists are shorter and our screens hold up in front of engineers.
We work across two connected tracks: securing AI systems from attack and misuse, and using AI to strengthen cyber defence.
Track 1: securing AI
Protecting models, pipelines and agents from attack, abuse and failure. Typical mandates: AI Safety Engineer, AI Red Teamer, Adversarial ML Researcher, ML Security Engineer, MLSecOps Engineer, LLM Application Security Specialist.
Track 2: AI for security
Applying machine learning to cyber defence so that detection, triage and response run at machine speed rather than analyst speed. Typical mandates: AI SOC Engineer, ML Detection Engineer, Security Automation Engineer, Threat Detection Data Scientist.
Governance and leadership
The people who own AI risk in front of a board or a regulator: Head of AI Security, AI Governance Lead, Responsible AI Lead, CISO at AI-first companies, and specialists in the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and ISO/IEC 42001.
How we engage
- Direct hire (permanent). End-to-end permanent recruitment built around long-term fit rather than a fast fill. Includes interview process guidance, compensation package analysis, weekly reporting and direct headhunting of named individuals and target companies.
- Contract and interim (5 to 20 days). Senior contract operators for incident response, audit readiness, M&A diligence and six to twelve month leadership gaps. Day rate or fixed scope, with IR35 and US 1099 coverage and a pre-cleared bench for rapid mobilisation.
- Retained search (8 to 14 weeks). Single-mandate, single-firm engagement with committed milestones. Full market mapping, named-list outreach, off-cycle approach and a guaranteed shortlist, with reference and clearance support.
- Executive search (10 to 16 weeks). Board, C-suite and director appointments. Discreet, off-market headhunting for the leaders who own AI risk end to end, including CISO and VP-level mandates, stakeholder and board alignment and succession support.
- Build mode (90 days and up). A dedicated researcher and consultant working as an extension of your security organisation. Designed for build-outs of five or more hires into a single function, with a build-out plan, compensation benchmarking, employer brand work and weekly governance.
Where we work
We run searches across the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics and wider Europe, plus the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The desk is remote and global rather than branch-based, which means no off-limits restrictions inherited from a parent group and access to the whole market on every mandate.
Common questions about AI security hiring
What does an AI security recruitment agency do?
It finds and places the people who secure artificial intelligence systems. That is a different talent pool from general cyber security, because the work needs both security depth and a real understanding of how models, training pipelines and agents fail. SecurAI Talent recruits only in that intersection.
Which AI security roles do you recruit for?
AI safety engineers, AI red teamers, adversarial ML researchers, ML and MLSecOps security engineers, LLM application security specialists, AI SOC and detection engineers, AI governance and responsible AI leads, and security leadership up to CISO at AI-first companies.
Where do you recruit?
The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordics and wider Europe, plus the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Searches are run remotely and globally rather than from a branch network.
What does an AI security engineer earn?
Base salaries for securing-AI roles run roughly $170k to $300k in the United States and from about EUR 130k in Europe, with Gulf packages typically tax free. Full ranges by role and region are published in our 2026 salary benchmark.
How do you charge?
Contingent for direct hire, retained for search and executive mandates, day rate or statement of work for contract. Build mode is a fixed monthly engagement for teams hiring five or more people into one function.
How quickly can you deliver a shortlist?
Contract and interim mandates typically produce a shortlist in five to twenty days. Retained search runs eight to fourteen weeks end to end, and executive search ten to sixteen weeks.