AI Red Team Lead Engineer
Core
Leads offensive security activities and adversarial testing for AI/ML systems, platforms, and integrations, acting as a senior technical authority to identify and validate AI-related risks.
Role type
Senior IC AI Red Team Lead Engineer
Builds
Custom AI red team tooling, frameworks, automation, and threat emulation exercises targeting models, data pipelines, and AI-enabled applications.
Domain
Financial services / AI Security / Offensive AI Operations
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Adversarial testing of LLMs and custom models, Design and execution of AI-specific threat emulation, Development of custom offensive tooling, Security research on emerging AI attack techniques, Mentorship of red team engineers, Cloud and containerized environment expertise
Preferred skills
Knowledge of prompt injection and model extraction techniques, Experience with RAG pipelines and orchestration frameworks, Proficiency in Python, Go, or C/C++, Ability to translate research into operational tooling
Technologies
LLMs, RAG pipelines, Python, PowerShell, Go, C/C++, Shell, Cloud environments, Containerized environments
Responsibilities
Lead AI Red Team operations including adversarial testing of foundation and custom models, Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation aligned to real-world adversaries, Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling and automation, Perform security research into emerging AI attack techniques, Partner with detection and engineering teams for control validation, Mentor and provide technical leadership to red team engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with program lead responsibilities
