GenAI Safety Red Team Analyst — Trust & Safety

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 272,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok's Trust & Safety GenAI & Emerging Products team seeks an experienced professional to conduct structured adversarial testing of AI models, features, and policies, to uncover vulnerabilities and emerging risks.

You will document findings with clear risk descriptions, reproduction steps, severity assessments, and mitigation recommendations, and collaborate with policy, product, engineering, and data science teams to improve safety before and after launch.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, risk/adversarial testing, or related fields.
• Experience with prompt testing, jailbreak analysis, LLM evaluation, or adversarial QA.
• Familiarity with AI safety risks (jailbreaks, hallucinations, bias, misuse patterns).
• Strong interest in GenAI safety and adversarial risk mitigation.
• Ability to investigate ambiguous problems and produce evidence-based conclusions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured adversarial testing on AI models, features, and policies to identify vulnerabilities and emerging risks.
• Explore product behavior across contexts and user journeys to identify model failure modes not captured by standard evaluations.
• Investigate jailbreaks, evasions, prompt-based attacks, and other adversarial techniques relevant to content safety.
• Document findings with risk descriptions, reproduction steps, severity assessments, and mitigation recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure mitigation validation and root cause closure.
• Support development of testing playbooks, taxonomies, and internal knowledge bases.
• Stay updated on emerging adversarial trends and shifts in the external risk landscape.

Skills

Adversarial testing

GenAI safety

LLM evaluation

Jailbreak analysis

Risk assessment

Cross-functional collaboration

Ambiguous problem solving

Tools

Prompt testing tooling

Job description

TikTok's Trust & Safety GenAI & Emerging Products team seeks an experienced professional to conduct structured adversarial testing of AI models, features, and policies, to uncover vulnerabilities and emerging risks.

You will document findings with clear risk descriptions, reproduction steps, severity assessments, and mitigation recommendations, and collaborate with policy, product, engineering, and data science teams to improve safety before and after launch.