AI Security Research & Red Team Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity plan

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in the United States is seeking a highly skilled AI Security Research & Red team engineer to join our Red Team within the Security Threat Detection, Response and Emulation organization. You will lead security research and attacker emulations to strengthen defenses against AI, agents, LLMs, and related tooling across our global infrastructure and product ecosystem.

This role emphasizes hands-on testing, cross-team collaboration, and clear communication of

Qualifications

• 4+ years in offensive security, application security or related field.
• Deep knowledge of AI, LLMs, prompt engineering and AI attack vectors.
• Experience with manual testing, exploit development, or cloud security (AWS/GCP).
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK to map coverage and identify defensive gaps.
• Ability to explain complex exploits to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• AI Security and Vulnerability Research: identify AI-specific vulnerabilities.
• Agentic testing and adoption: test AI implementations and LLM usage.
• Adversary Simulation: conduct red team operations across infrastructure and product ecosystems.
• Efficacy Testing: measure detections by WAF, EDR, SIEM against known TTPs.
• Purple Teaming: collaborate with Blue Team to translate findings into defenses.
• Mentorship & Growth: lead technically while promoting ethical hacking.
• Executive Reporting: present risk-based findings to leadership.

Skills

AI security

Red team

Threat modeling

MITRE ATT&CK

Communication skills

Penetration testing

Cloud security

Tools

BAS tools

C2 frameworks

LLM tooling

Job description

About Us

At the company, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. the company protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by the company all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. the company was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At the company, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a \"normalized\" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled AI Security Research & Red team engineerto join our Red Team within the Security Threat Detection, Response and Emulation organization. This is a critical role that will be at the forefront of protecting our company and customers from malicious threats. You will be responsible for driving security research, exercises, and activities that emulate real world attackers and attacks to drive improvements in the company’s security posture focusing on AI, Agents, harnesses and LLM’s.

Key Responsibilities:

• AI Security and Vulnerability Research: Stay current with emerging threats and perform deep-dive research to identify AI-specific vulnerabilities and risks in addition to general vulnerabilities across the company’s products and services.


• Agentic testing and adoption: As a core function, identifying AI-related attack surfaces through rigorous testing of agentic implementations and LLM usage which will help define requirements and implementation guidance while proactively.


• Adversary Simulation: Execution of full-chain red team operations targeting the company’s global infrastructure, corporate networks, and product ecosystems.


• Efficacy Testing: Establish a rigorous framework for testing \"Security Efficacy\"—measuring exactly how well our WAF, EDR, and SIEM detections perform against known TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures).


• Purple Teaming: Foster a highly collaborative relationship with the Blue Team (Detection & Response) to ensure findings are translated into immediate defensive improvements.


• Mentorship & Growth: Be a technical leader, providing technical expertise while fostering a culture of curiosity, ethical hacking and partnering to improve the company’s security posture.


• Executive Reporting: Translate complex technical exploits into risk-based narratives for leadership, helping prioritize engineering resources where they matter most.

Partnerships

• Security Incident Response Team (SIRT): You will act as the \"sparring partner\" for SIRT. By conducting unannounced exercises, you help them refine their playbooks, test their on-call rotations, and ensure their forensic tooling is effective under pressure.


• Threat Detection & Threat Engineering: You will partner closely with these teams to bridge the gap between adversary simulation and defensive coverage. You will proactively identify detection gaps, lead the development of new detection logic, and establish rigorous validation frameworks to test and tune detections against emerging TTPs.


• Product Engineering/SRE: We operate as \"Customer Zero\" of our own products, your red teaming findings will drive resilience in processes and implementations, ultimately making the company and its customers more secure.


• Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): You will bridge the gap between \"paper security\" and \"technical reality.\" By providing empirical evidence of control effectiveness, you help GRC move away from manual audits and toward continuous, automated compliance validation.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 4+ years in offensive security, application security or other relevant field


• Deep knowledge: AI, Coding agents, LLMs, prompt engineering, AI-related attack vectors (e.g., prompt injection, jailbreaking), and Agentic concepts all for use in the red team but also testing the company uses.


• Technical Roots: A strong background in manual penetration testing, exploit development, or cloud security (AWS/GCP/Bare Metal).


• Operational Mindset: Experience using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map coverage and identify \"blind spots\" in defensive telemetry.


• Communication Skills: The ability to explain a complex \"0-day\" exploit to a non-technical stakeholder while maintaining the respect of a deep-dive engineering team.


• Tooling Familiarity: Knowledge of automated breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools, as well as custom-built frameworks for payload delivery and C2 infrastructure.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $166,000 - $208,000.

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in the company’s equity plan.

What Makes the company Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by the company’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.