Lead Frontier AI Safety Red Teamer

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and assess safety across high-risk topics.

Join a cutting-edge research environment, collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment, robustness, and safe behavior, and contribute to safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in AI Safety, AI Red Teaming, Trust & Safety, cybersecurity, investigative journalism, life sciences, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design adversarial prompts to stress-test frontier AI models.
• Identify jailbreaks, unsafe behaviours, hallucinations, and policy failures.
• Evaluate model robustness across misinformation, cyber, biosecurity, fraud, political content, and other sensitive domains.
• Document vulnerabilities and contribute to safety benchmarking and red-teaming reports.
• Collaborate with AI researchers to improve model alignment, robustness, and safety.

Skills

Analytical reasoning

Prompt design

Written communication

Adversarial prompt design

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS, cybersecurity, journalism, communications, psychology, biology, chemistry, public policy, or related discipline

Job description

Obsidian is seeking experienced AI Safety Red Teamers to identify vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems through adversarial testing. You will design prompts, uncover model weaknesses, and assess safety across high-risk topics.

Join a cutting-edge research environment, collaborate with AI researchers to improve alignment, robustness, and safe behavior, and contribute to safety benchmarks and red-teaming reports.