Senior AI Red Team Engineer — Federal Security Programs

PGTEK; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPO medical coverage with HSA option

Vision plan

Dental insurance with base plan paid

Life Insurance

Short and Long-Term disability

Critical Illness insurance

401(k) with company match

Pet insurance discount

Employee Assistance Program

PTO and Holidays

Education Assistance Program

Job summary

PGTEK is seeking a Sr. Agent Security / AI Red-Team Engineer to advance our L400 Advanced Development capability. You will assess defenses by attacking our agents and translate findings into durable controls for regulated environments.

The role emphasizes prompt injection testing, AI red teaming, Model Armor, IAM, and secure tool calling, with responsibilities spanning threat modeling, compliance, and hands-on security engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software, cloud, data, cybersecurity, systems, or AI engineering experience.
• 3+ years of advanced hands-on experience in production or regulated environments.
• Experience with prompt injection, AI red teaming, Model Armor, IAM, secure tool calling, MCP/A2A security, Python, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Threat-model prompts, retrieval, tools, memory, MCP/A2A, and identities.
• Execute attacks and verify remediation.
• Design solutions using prompt injection testing, AI red teaming, Model Armor, IAM, secure tool calling, and MCP/A2A security.
• Mentor team members and contribute reusable security standards.
• Support RMF/FedRAMP/DoD authorization activities.

Skills

Prompt injection

AI red teaming

Incident response

Threat modeling

IAM

Secure tool calling

MCP/A2A security

Python

Tools

Python

Job description

PGTEK is seeking a Sr. Agent Security / AI Red-Team Engineer to advance our L400 Advanced Development capability. You will assess defenses by attacking our agents and translate findings into durable controls for regulated environments.

The role emphasizes prompt injection testing, AI red teaming, Model Armor, IAM, and secure tool calling, with responsibilities spanning threat modeling, compliance, and hands-on security engineering.