AI Security Research Lead — Adversarial Testing & Quality

Belsoftsolutions; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Belsoftsolutions is seeking a lead researcher to drive exploration of how AI apps and agents fail in practice, focusing on weird inputs, prompt tricks, workflow abuse, and misuse patterns. You will manage a small team, maintain rigorous documentation, and translate findings into actionable patterns for engineers.

You will build trackers in spreadsheets, collaborate with engineers across time zones, and own quality improvements across testing cycles to ensure robust, secure AI products.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team or operation in research, QA, manual testing, UAT, or a similarly structured delivery function.
• Strong hands with Excel or Sheets: build and run a real tracker, not just fill one in.
• Adversarial mindset: enjoy finding inputs/workflows that break systems and document it.
• Clear writing: describe a failure precisely so an engineer can reproduce it on the first try.
• Comfortable with a distributed, international team across time zones and time shifts.

Responsibilities

• Lead research into how AI apps and agents fail in practice: weird inputs, prompt tricks, workflow abuse, and misuse engineers might not think to try.
• Run manual security testing at the behavior level: what an agent can be tricked into doing, revealing, or acting on it shouldn’t
• Build and maintain test trackers, checklists, and findings logs in Excel or Sheets that stay usable as the team and product grow
• Turn recurring failure patterns into standing checks that feed DeployReady and client security audits
• Write up findings so engineers can reproduce and fix them without a translation layer: exact steps, input, and result
• Own quality improvement across testing cycles: track what keeps breaking, what got fixed, and what’s still open
• Communicate daily with engineers and other team leads, including across time zones, to prioritize and close out findings
• Lead and grow a small research/testing team over time, setting priorities and reviewing their work
• Keep researching how people misuse or break AI products, bring new tricks into the process

Skills

Team leadership

Excel/Sheets

Adversarial mindset

Clear writing

Distributed team

Education

Criminology or Psychology background

Tools

Excel/Sheets

Job description

Belsoftsolutions is seeking a lead researcher to drive exploration of how AI apps and agents fail in practice, focusing on weird inputs, prompt tricks, workflow abuse, and misuse patterns. You will manage a small team, maintain rigorous documentation, and translate findings into actionable patterns for engineers.

You will build trackers in spreadsheets, collaborate with engineers across time zones, and own quality improvements across testing cycles to ensure robust, secure AI products.