AI Red Team Researcher
RegionUSA
Job description
Job Description: - Run continuous adversarial testing against detection models across audio, video, image, and text
- Reproduce new generative tools and techniques and stress-test them against production models
- Build realistic, end-to-end attack simulations mirroring real bad-actor operations
- Build and maintain red team infrastructure, including test harnesses, attack catalogs, and adversarial datasets
- Prioritize findings and provide AI scientists and engineers with clear reproduction steps
- Verify fixes through regression testing
- Track generative AI tools, research, and threat actor tradecraft and triage likely weaponized techniques
- Partner with Product to shape roadmap priorities
- Support Sales, Marketing, and Solutions Engineering with publishable research and threat briefings
- Contribute to adversarial testing of APIs and integrations with Security
- Help define ethical guidelines and safe-handling practices for synthetic media
- Report to the VP of Product
- Within 12 months, become an internal authority on deepfake creation and evasion, scale adversarial testing infrastructure, shape product and customer risk discussions, and lead testing of emerging threats
Requirements: - 4+ years of experience in offensive security, adversarial ML, AI red teaming, or ML engineering with a strong adversarial focus
- Hands-on experience generating synthetic media, including voice cloning and TTS, face swap, lip-sync, and diffusion-based image and video tools, in an offensive or research context
- Strong Python skills
- Practical ML fluency with PyTorch or similar
- Ability to build attack tooling, automate testing pipelines, and reason about model failures
- Working knowledge of adversarial ML techniques, including evasion, adversarial perturbations, compression and post-processing attacks, and data poisoning
- Ability to measure model robustness
- Ability to communicate technical findings as prioritized, actionable guidance for technical and non-technical audiences
- Background in media forensics, signal processing, speech/audio, or computer vision (nice to have)
- Traditional red team or penetration testing experience, relevant certifications such as OSCP, or familiarity with Garak, PyRIT, or the Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (nice to have)
- Published research, conference talks, CVEs, or open-source contributions in adversarial ML, deepfakes, or AI security (nice to have)
- Authorization to work in the U.S. is requested in the application
- Must be willing to relocate if not currently located in or near NYC for the headquarters-based option
Benefits: - Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
- Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
- Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
- FSA/HSA and 401k programs
- Equity compensation
- 20 days of PTO per year
- 12 weeks of Parental Leave
- Learning and Development budget
- Monthly wellness benefits
- Annual company-sponsored offsite
- Daily in-office lunch through UberEats for HQ employees
- Commuter benefits for HQ employees
- Remote Fridays for HQ employees
- Happy Hours and other local events for HQ employees
- Eligibility for annual performance bonus
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