Lead AI Red Team Engineer: Offensive ML Security Leader

U.S. Bank; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 127,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Parental leave

401(k)

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to guide offensive security for AI/ML systems, including models, data pipelines, and AI-enabled applications.

You will own design, execution, and reporting of red team operations, and drive maturity through repeatable testing methodologies, automation, and business impact communication. The role requires collaboration across detection, engineering, and governance teams, with leadership to mentor red team engineers and advance AI security program

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience.
• Eight plus years of relevant experience.
• Thorough understanding of the applicable 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 (LLMs, vision, speech, decision systems).
• 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 to scale testing.
• 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

AI/ML security

Adversarial testing

Threat modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LLM APIs

Orchestration frameworks

Evaluation pipelines

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to guide offensive security for AI/ML systems, including models, data pipelines, and AI-enabled applications.

You will own design, execution, and reporting of red team operations, and drive maturity through repeatable testing methodologies, automation, and business impact communication. The role requires collaboration across detection, engineering, and governance teams, with leadership to mentor red team engineers and advance AI security program