AI Red Team Engineer - LLM Security & Adversary Research

ByLabs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ByLabs seeks a skilled Red Team Security Engineer to join our SOC. You will simulate adversary TTPs, including APT-level attacks, to validate detection and response while researching AI/LLM security risks.

You will work with blue teams, threat intel, and security engineering to improve our defensive posture. You will design end-to-end red team operations, replicate APT TTPs, and develop offensive tools and evasion techniques.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on red team or penetration testing experience.
• Proficiency with at least one mainstream C2 framework (e.g., Cobalt Strike, Sliver).
• Strong web application exploitation fundamentals (OWASP Top 10).
• Ability to map TTPs to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and design corresponding tests.
• Experience with LLM security, RAG/Agent/MCP architectures, and threat surfaces.
• Hands-on experience with Prompt Injection, jailbreaking, or model extraction attacks.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATLAS and AI/ML threat classification.
• Red team certifications such as OSCP, CRTO, CRTE (preferred).
• Web3/blockchain security background and on-chain attack analysis (preferred).
• CTF participation or published vulnerability research (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design and execute end-to-end red team ops covering reconnaissance to data exfiltration.
• Replicate APT TTPs to validate detection and incident response capabilities.
• Develop offensive tools, C2 frameworks, and evasion techniques.
• Contribute to BAS playbooks across Windows, macOS, Linux.
• Research AI/LLM attack surfaces: prompt injection, model poisoning, adversarial examples.
• Evaluate AI/LLM security risks in applications and provide findings.
• Track AI security research and produce internal threat intelligence.
• Collaborate with blue team to translate findings into detections.
• Produce high-quality red team reports with remediation guidance.

Skills

Penetration testing

C2 frameworks

Web exploitation

MITRE ATT&CK mapping

LLM security

Prompt Injection

Model extraction

MITRE ATLAS

Red team certs

CTF experience

Job description

ByLabs seeks a skilled Red Team Security Engineer to join our SOC. You will simulate adversary TTPs, including APT-level attacks, to validate detection and response while researching AI/LLM security risks.

You will work with blue teams, threat intel, and security engineering to improve our defensive posture. You will design end-to-end red team operations, replicate APT TTPs, and develop offensive tools and evasion techniques.