Head of Red Team Engineering

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

FAR.AI is seeking a Head of Engineering (Red Team) to scale one of the world’s most impactful frontier AI red‑teaming programs. This role focuses on building the engineering and execution engine that enables and empowers the red team’s work across testing, tools, products, services, and research.

The systems and the team you build will enable the division to execute on high‑stakes engagements with frontier AI companies and governments, provide these stakeholders critical insights and tools, and

Responsibilities

• Building a scalable red‑teaming engine: tooling, products, services, evals, agents, and a self‑improving workflow that multiplies output.
• Build and scale internal/external red‑teaming tools and products that improve speed, coverage, and severity of findings.
• Develop agentic red‑teaming systems to automatically and systematically explore the attack space.
• Develop agentic systems to identify new public jailbreaks and other releases, and automatically integrate them into our systems.
• Advance state‑of‑the‑art attacker simulation and output harmfulness evaluation.
• Maintain and evolve internal vulnerability databases, statistical analysis tools, and reporting infrastructure.
• Build systems to empower high‑stakes red‑teaming engagements with frontier AI companies and governments.
• Support public reports, benchmarks, and leaderboards that shape industry norms.
• Contribute to red‑teaming of frontier models (closed‑ and open‑weight), improving testing systems both within particular engagements and turning insights from engagements into advances in our overall systems.
• Build agentic workflows that accelerate the red team broadly.
• Initially managing, mentoring, and supporting a growing elite team of engineering / red‑teaming ICs, with extremely high standards for velocity, rigor, judgment, and impact.
• Plan sprints and lead engineering execution.
• Mentor red team ICs in engineering skills, both in direct 1‑1 settings and by building resources for rapid skill growth and knowledge transfer.
• Manage ICs, supporting and amplifying their impact, setting high standards

Job description

FAR.AI is seeking a Head of Engineering (Red Team) to scale one of the world’s most impactful frontier AI red‑teaming programs. This role focuses on building the engineering and execution engine that enables and empowers the red team’s work across testing, tools, products, services, and research.

The systems and the team you build will enable the division to execute on high‑stakes engagements with frontier AI companies and governments, provide these stakeholders critical insights and tools, and