GenAI Security Engineer — Lead Red Team & AI Safety

Google LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance and related benefits

Retirement benefits (401(k) with match

Paid time off 20 days per year

Sick time 40 hours/year (69 hours/year

Holidays 13 paid days

Job summary

Google LLC is seeking a Generative AI Senior Security Engineer within the Content Adversarial Red Team (CART) to lead offensive cyber misuse red-teaming across Frontier Generative AI products. You will design multi-stage kill chains, exploit/malware generation, and indirect prompt injection techniques, reporting findings to cross-functional stakeholders.

You will partner with Responsible AI Testing teams to translate results into actionable risk insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
• 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
• 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.
• 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead red-teaming exercises across Generative AI models, product surfaces, and autonomous agents to uncover novel cyber misuse capabilities, jailbreaks, and emerging security risks, conducting some volume of red teaming for Frontier Safety risks or content safety as needed.
• Design and execute adversarial cyber testing strategies—including evaluating exploit and malware development uplift, vulnerability discovery, phishing/data exfiltration enablement, and multi-stage cyber kill chains.
• Employ technical cyber grading rubrics/safety and security/safety policies to determine effectiveness of attacks and validate testing strategies. Provide technical guidance, baseline grading, and quality oversight for specialized external red-teaming vendors and extended workforce teams.
• Analyze, reproduce, and validate testing results, assessing real-world exploitability and capability uplift severity.
• Synthesize technical findings into risk insights and data-driven narratives for cross-functional stakeholders.

Skills

Security assessments

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Coding

Leadership experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Google LLC is seeking a Generative AI Senior Security Engineer within the Content Adversarial Red Team (CART) to lead offensive cyber misuse red-teaming across Frontier Generative AI products. You will design multi-stage kill chains, exploit/malware generation, and indirect prompt injection techniques, reporting findings to cross-functional stakeholders.

You will partner with Responsible AI Testing teams to translate results into actionable risk insights.