Senior AI Red Team Engineer — Offensive AI Security

Carnegie-Mellon-University; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Tuition benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Carnegie Mellon University seeks an AI Red Team Engineer for the CERT Threat Analysis Directorate to emulate adversaries against AI-enabled systems used in national security contexts. You will design and execute red-team operations, develop new attack techniques, and write cross‑platform tooling in Python, C, and scripting languages.

Expect collaboration with multiple CERT teams and graduate-level ongoing study.

Qualifications

• BS in computer science, software engineering, networking, information systems, or a related technical field with ten (10) years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Red team real-world AI-enabled systems to support national security objectives.
• Develop new tactics, techniques, and procedures for attacking AI-enabled systems.
• Write tools in Python, PowerShell, C, and BASH to enable red team operations.
• Represent CERT technical portfolio of work and communicate with external mission partners.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red teaming

Exploit development

Python

C

BASH

PowerShell

Ghidra

IDAPRO

TCP/IP

Wireshark

OSCP

Education

BS in computer science or related field

MS in computer science or related field

PhD in computer science or related field

Tools

Cobalt Strike

Sliver

Job description

Carnegie Mellon University seeks an AI Red Team Engineer for the CERT Threat Analysis Directorate to emulate adversaries against AI-enabled systems used in national security contexts. You will design and execute red-team operations, develop new attack techniques, and write cross‑platform tooling in Python, C, and scripting languages.

Expect collaboration with multiple CERT teams and graduate-level ongoing study.