AI Monitoring Red Team Engineer

Apollo Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work hours

Unlimited vacation

Unlimited sick leave

Parental leave 6 months

Health insurance (medical, dental, vis

Job summary

Apollo Research seeks an AI Red Team Engineer to build and lead red‑teaming campaigns for Watcher and monitor systems. You’ll hunt attack surfaces, design automated pipelines, and collaborate with the CEO and product engineers.

You’ll join a small, fast‑growing team in London or SF, shaping the practice, publishing findings, and turning adversarial insights into concrete improvements.

Visa sponsorship available; in‑person role with flexible hours.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in offensive security, adversarial ML, or red-teaming of AI systems.
• Strong experience with AI coding agents, extensive use of, comparison of, or direct development of frontier coding agents.
• Experience designing and executing structured adversarial testing campaigns
• Strong Python programming skills
• Strong written communication as you will produce publications and campaign write-ups that need to be clear and credible externally.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on open-ended adversarial problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and run red‑teaming campaigns with severity‑graded failure‑mode injection into real trajectories, static monitoring benchmarks (e.g. MonitoringBench), and dynamic off‑policy control red‑teaming.
• Identify novel attack surfaces monitors haven’t been tested against.
• Build and maintain automated red‑teaming pipelines that attack monitors at scale.
• Design iterative adversarial red‑team/blue‑team games, working with RS (Control) on the blue‑team side to keep escalating attack difficulty as monitors improve.
• Track the research literature and real‑world incidents on agent failure modes, monitor evasion, and adversarial robustness.
• Turn each campaign into specific, actionable recommendations for monitor developers e.g. on time of intervention, user authorisation, trust boundaries, and monitor visibility
• Write up campaign findings as external publications and internal reports.
• Feed findings back into Watcher’s monitor development and Apollo’s blue‑teaming research, so lessons learned externally harden our own product.

Skills

2+ years adversarial security

AI coding agents experience

Structured adversarial testing

Python programming

Technical writing

Independent problem solving

Tools

Penetration testing

Job description

Apollo Research seeks an AI Red Team Engineer to build and lead red‑teaming campaigns for Watcher and monitor systems. You’ll hunt attack surfaces, design automated pipelines, and collaborate with the CEO and product engineers.

You’ll join a small, fast‑growing team in London or SF, shaping the practice, publishing findings, and turning adversarial insights into concrete improvements.

Visa sponsorship available; in‑person role with flexible hours.