AI Red Team Researcher

Reality Defender (YC W22)·New York, New York·Posted 11d ago·via Talent.com

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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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