Empower

Senior Engineer, AI/ML – Responsible AI Red Team

Empower

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $125,400 - $181,875 per year

Job Level

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About the role

  • Design and execute adversarial testing strategies for AI and GenAI systems, including jailbreaks, prompt injection, unsafe completions, and ungrounded responses.
  • Build and maintain automated red-team testing frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and adversarial test suites.
  • Analyze model and system behavior to identify safety, robustness, and security vulnerabilities.
  • Document findings and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance to application and platform teams.
  • Partner with AI/ML engineers to harden applications and workflows based on red-team findings.
  • Collaborate with QA to integrate adversarial testing into continuous validation and release pipelines.
  • Coordinate with Security teams on LLM threat modeling, vulnerability escalation, and incident support when safety failures occur.
  • Contribute to research and prototyping of new adversarial testing techniques and red-team tooling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • 4–7 years of professional software or AI/ML engineering experience
  • Hands-on experience building, testing, or evaluating AI/ML or LLM-based systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing automated testing or evaluation frameworks
  • Experience working with modern cloud platforms such as AWS
  • Understanding of common GenAI and LLM risk vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, or unsafe outputs
  • Experience collaborating effectively with engineering, security, and product teams.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
  • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
  • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
  • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
  • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
  • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
  • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
adversarial testingautomated testing frameworksAI/ML engineeringPythonevaluation harnessesred-team testingsafety vulnerabilitiesrobustness analysissecurity vulnerabilitiesGenAI risk vectors
Soft skills
collaborationcommunicationdocumentationactionable guidancepartneringcoordinating
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineeringrelated field experience