Lead AI Red Team Engineer — Offensive ML Security

Usbank; Gresham (OR); On-site; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Adoption assistance

Sick leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to drive offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems and traditional enterprise surfaces.

You will own design, execution, and reporting of AI red team operations, guiding teams to identify risks and communicate their business impact. You will mentor engineers, scale testing through tooling, and collaborate with governance and detection teams to mature AI security across platforms and pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• Eight plus years of relevant experience
• Thorough understanding of information security systems, policies, and procedures
• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Responsibilities

• Lead AI Red Team operations, including adversarial testing of Foundation and custom models, model deployment environments, training, evaluation and inference pipelines
• Oversee data ingestion, labeling and governance controls
• Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation aligned to real-world adversaries and emerging attack techniques
• Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling, frameworks and automation
• Perform security research into emerging AI attack techniques, model vulnerabilities, and defensive gaps
• Partner with detection, engineering and governance teams to support purple-team and control validation activities
• Contribute to AI security standards, testing guidance and program strategy
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to red team engineers

Skills

Effective communication

Leadership

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Collaboration and influencing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Eight+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Go

C/C++

Shell

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to drive offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems and traditional enterprise surfaces.

You will own design, execution, and reporting of AI red team operations, guiding teams to identify risks and communicate their business impact. You will mentor engineers, scale testing through tooling, and collaborate with governance and detection teams to mature AI security across platforms and pipelines.