AI Safety & Red Team Lead - Senior Technical Staff

Xcede; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede partners with a frontier AI research company to recruit a Member of Technical Staff focused on AI Safety. You will lead red-teaming, design scalable safety evaluation pipelines, and work at the intersection of model evaluation, alignment, and software engineering.

You will collaborate with alignment researchers, set safety thresholds for releases, and develop state-of-the-art jailbreaking defenses to stay ahead of threats.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in LLM safety, red teaming, adversarial attacks, interpretability, or model evaluation.
• Strong software engineering skills and experience building large-scale ML systems or automated evaluation infrastructure.
• Experience with AI alignment techniques, RLHF, RLAIF, or related safety methodologies is highly desirable.
• MS, PhD, or equivalent practical experience in Machine Learning, AI Safety, Computer Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead red-teaming and adversarial evaluation efforts to uncover model vulnerabilities, misuse risks, and alignment gaps.
• Design and build scalable safety evaluation frameworks and automated testing pipelines.
• Partner closely with alignment researchers to translate safety findings into production guardrails.
• Act as a key decision-maker in determining whether model releases meet safety thresholds.
• Research and implement state-of-the-art jailbreaking techniques and defenses to stay ahead of emerging threats.
• Develop dynamic safety benchmarks that evolve alongside increasingly capable AI systems.

Skills

LLM safety

Red teaming

Adversarial attacks

Model evaluation

Large-scale ML systems

AI alignment methods (RLHF/RLAIF)

Education

MS/PhD in ML/CS

Tools

Python

ML infra

CI/CD

Job description

Xcede partners with a frontier AI research company to recruit a Member of Technical Staff focused on AI Safety. You will lead red-teaming, design scalable safety evaluation pipelines, and work at the intersection of model evaluation, alignment, and software engineering.

You will collaborate with alignment researchers, set safety thresholds for releases, and develop state-of-the-art jailbreaking defenses to stay ahead of threats.