GenAI Senior Red Team Security Engineer

Google LLC; Seattle, Austin (WA, TX); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google LLC seeks a GenAI Senior Security Engineer to lead offensive red-team work across Frontier Generative AI products. You will design multi-stage adversarial tests, assess exploitability, and translate results into risk insights for product and security teams.

The role requires 5+ years in security assessments, red team operations, Python scripting, and a strong AI safety background. Some extended hours may be needed to support critical assessments.

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

Security design reviews

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Security protocols

Python coding

Lead / leadership

Red team / offensive security

AI safety / frontier safety

General purpose programming

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

General purpose languages

Job description

Google LLC seeks a GenAI Senior Security Engineer to lead offensive red-team work across Frontier Generative AI products. You will design multi-stage adversarial tests, assess exploitability, and translate results into risk insights for product and security teams.

The role requires 5+ years in security assessments, red team operations, Python scripting, and a strong AI safety background. Some extended hours may be needed to support critical assessments.