10a Labs

What is 10a Labs?

10a Labs is a safety and threat-intelligence company that describes itself as "Intelligence for Artificial Intelligence." It serves as the trust, safety, and security layer for organizations deploying AI at scale: frontier AI labs, AI unicorns, Fortune 10 companies, and leading global technology platforms. Its core services are adversarial red teaming (stress-testing AI systems to find how they can be misused or made to fail), model evaluations, and multilingual threat-intelligence collection, combining proprietary technology with deep human expertise to detect abuse at scale and help engineering, safety, and security teams stay ahead of evolving threats. Because the work is about finding real-world abuse, harmful content, and adversarial behavior across languages and cultures, its multilingual and regional expertise is central rather than incidental. 10a Labs was founded by Robert L. McKenzie and is based in Washington, DC, with a small team in the 11 to 50 range and hiring managed through Greenhouse. The company does not publicly disclose funding details or a founding year, so treat those as unknown. For workers, 10a Labs is relevant on two fronts: full-time roles in AI safety, security, and threat intelligence, and specialist multilingual red-team and analyst work that can suit people with regional and language expertise in online harms.

Mission & values

Give the teams building and deploying AI the intelligence and adversarial testing they need to find abuse before it happens, so AI systems can be launched safely.

Qualifications

10a Labs hires in two overlapping areas. (1) Full-time roles: AI safety and security researchers, red-team engineers, threat-intelligence analysts, machine-learning and evaluation engineers, trust-and-safety specialists, product, and operations. These are recruited through the company's Greenhouse board and are frequently remote-friendly, with a Washington, DC base. (2) Specialist and multilingual red-teamers and analysts: because the work spans online harms, abuse, and adversarial behavior across many languages and regions, 10a Labs values native or near-native fluency in specific languages plus domain knowledge of trust-and-safety issues (for example CSAM/harm taxonomies, extremism, fraud, or influence operations), which can suit experts who bring regional and linguistic depth. Across both, the strongest candidates combine genuine trust-and-safety or security expertise with comfort doing adversarial, detail-heavy work on frontier AI systems. Note that some of this content is sensitive and can be distressing, similar to content-moderation work, so candidates should be aware of the nature of the material.

Leadership

Hiring process

1. 1

   Apply via the 10a Labs Greenhouse board

   Browse open safety, security, threat-intelligence, and engineering roles at job-boards.greenhouse.io/10alabs and apply through the site.

2. 2

   Recruiter screen

   Confirms role fit, relevant trust-and-safety or security experience, language skills where relevant, remote eligibility, and expectations.

   About 7 days

3. 3

   Hiring manager interview

   Role-specific conversation on your domain (red teaming, threat intel, ML evaluation, or safety engineering) and how you approach adversarial work.

   About 7 days

4. 4

   Technical or domain exercise

   A practical exercise: a red-team or threat-analysis scenario, a model-evaluation task, or a coding exercise depending on the role.

   About 10 days

5. 5

   Final interviews and offer

   Cross-functional interviews, including expectation-setting on the sensitive nature of some content, followed by an offer.

   About 10 days

Funding

Awards & recognition

• Safety and threat-intelligence partner to frontier AI labs and Fortune 10 companies · 2026

  10a Labs

Company information

• Industry: AI Safety / Trust & Safety / Threat Intelligence / Red Teaming
• Location: Washington, DC, USA (Remote-Friendly)
• Company size: 11-50
• Website: 10alabs.com ↗
• LinkedIn: Company page ↗

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