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Principal Security Research Manager - Red Team

United States, Washington, RedmondFull-time2026-11-04 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead hands-on red-team operations and strategy to uncover critical weaknesses in advanced AI models, agentic systems, and AI-enabled products.

Role type

Principal Security Research Manager (Red Team)

Builds

High-fidelity attack campaigns, continuous adversarial testing suites, and automated threat reproduction tools for AI systems.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence Security / Adversarial Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Adversarial machine learning, offensive security, attack automation, AI system testing, team leadership, technical strategy, risk assessment, engineering partnership, research methodology, tooling development

Preferred skills

Experience building new technical functions, hiring multidisciplinary talent, establishing security governance partnerships

Technologies

Large language models, agentic systems, agent frameworks, indirect prompt injection tools, AI-enabled security products

Responsibilities

Set attack strategy and severity bar for AI model weaknesses, lead hands-on red-team operations across models and training systems, design and operationalize automated attack suites, drive findings to verified remediation, track emerging AI attack techniques, evolve team methods and tooling

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship