AI Red Team Lead Engineer

US Bank; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

401(k) and retirement plan

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to drive offensive security for AI/ML systems, models, data pipelines, and related infrastructure. You will design, execute, and report red team operations, partnering with teams to communicate AI-related risks.

The role requires senior technical leadership, hands-on testing of LLMs and deployment environments, and mentoring engineers. On-site three days per week at U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Eight plus years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of information security systems, policies, and procedures.
• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI Red Team operations, including adversarial testing of models, data pipelines, and deployment environments.
• Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling, frameworks, and automation to scale testing.
• Perform security research into emerging AI attack techniques, model vulnerabilities, and defensive gaps.
• Partner with detection, engineering, and governance teams to support purple-team and control validation activities.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to red team engineers.

Skills

AI security

Red team leadership

Adversarial testing

Cloud security

Programming: Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Model APIs

Kubernetes

Evaluation pipelines

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we're on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at-all from Day One.

Job Description

The AI Red Team Lead Engineer leads the execution and evolution of offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems, platforms, and integrations, in addition to traditional enterprise attack surfaces. Owns the design, execution, and reporting of AI-focused red team operations, adversarial testing, and threat emulation exercises targeting models, data pipelines, AI-enabled applications, and supporting infrastructure. Acts as a senior technical authority and program lead for AI red teaming, partnering with teams to identify, validate, and communicate AI-related risks. Drives maturity through repeatable testing methodologies, automation, custom tooling, and clear articulation of business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead AI Red Team operations, including adversarial testing of:
• Foundation and custom models (LLMs, vision, speech, decision systems)
• Model deployment environments (APIs, plugins, agents, RAG pipelines)
• Training, evaluation, and inference pipelines
• Data ingestion, labeling, and governance controls
• Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation aligned to real-world adversaries, misuse scenarios, and emerging attack techniques (e.g., prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, jailbreaks, supply chain risks).
• Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling, frameworks, and automation to scale testing and improve repeatability.
• Perform security research into emerging AI attack techniques, model vulnerabilities, and defensive gaps.
• Partner with detection, engineering, and governance teams to support purple-team and control validation activities.
• Contribute to AI security standards, testing guidance, and program strategy.
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to red team engineers.

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Eight plus years of relevant experience
• Thorough understanding of the applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures
• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Hands-on experience testing or securing AI/ML systems, including LLMs or other model classes
• Knowledge of AI threat models and attack techniques including, but not limited to, prompt injection, model extraction, training data poisoning, inference abuse, hallucination exploitation
• Familiarity with AI platforms and tooling (e.g., model APIs, orchestration frameworks, evaluation pipelines)
• Significant red team experience, including adversary emulation and multi-stage attack chains
• Proven skill developing proof-of-concept exploits and custom offensive tooling
• Strong understanding of red team and offensive AI techniques and tooling
• Expertise defeating or bypassing endpoint and AI-adjacent security controls (EDR/XDR, API protections, guardrails)
• Experience with cloud, containerized, and AI-hosting environments
• Proficiency in one or more languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Go, C/C++, Shell)
• Ability to translate research into operational tooling
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation,