AI Guardrails Engineer: Adversarial & Safety Testing

NTT DATA North America; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 103,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

FSA / HSA

AD&D insurance

Employee assistance

401k

Job summary

NTT DATA North America is seeking a Guardrails Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC). The role will build and automate guardrail testing, adversarial testing, policy validation, security checks, and evidence generation for AI agents and LLM-powered solutions.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements and integrate guardrail tests into CI/CD and production release processes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years engineering, security testing, QA automation, risk technology, AI safety, or platform testing experience.
• 5+ years Python and test automation experience.
• 5+ years understanding LLM risks, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, content safety, data leakage, and Responsible AI controls.
• 5+ years experience creating test harnesses, validation processes, and repeatable evidence artifacts.
• Ability to work with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and product stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop automated guardrail testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications, agents, tools, and workflows.
• Perform adversarial testing, prompt injection testing, jailbreak testing, red-team-style testing, and policy control validation.
• Validate content safety, data protection, security, responsible AI, and model risk controls.
• Build repeatable evidence packages to support approval gates and governance reviews.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements.
• Integrate guardrail tests into platform lifecycle, CI/CD, release readiness, and production enablement processes.
• Document findings, control gaps, remediation recommendations, and readiness evidence.

Skills

Python

Adversarial testing

Test automation

LLM risk understanding

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Security testing tools

Job description

NTT DATA North America is seeking a Guardrails Engineer to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina (US-NC). The role will build and automate guardrail testing, adversarial testing, policy validation, security checks, and evidence generation for AI agents and LLM-powered solutions.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements and integrate guardrail tests into CI/CD and production release processes.