Senior AI Red Team Lead — Offensive ML Security

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

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Disability

Parental Leave

401(k) Plan

Paid Vacation

Public Holidays

Adoption Aid

Sick Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to direct offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems and integrations, while also addressing traditional enterprise attack surfaces.

You will own the design, execution, and reporting of AI-focused red team operations and threat emulation, guiding teams to identify and communicate AI-related risks. The role demands leadership, advanced security expertise in AI, and the ability to scale testing through custom tooling and automation,

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, model deployment environments, and training pipelines.
• Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation aligned to real-world adversaries and emerging techniques.
• Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling and automation to scale testing and improve repeatability.
• 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

Threat modeling

Adversary emulation

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Go

C/C++

Shell

Cloud platforms

Containers

APIs

Model APIs

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an AI Red Team Lead Engineer to direct offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems and integrations, while also addressing traditional enterprise attack surfaces.

You will own the design, execution, and reporting of AI-focused red team operations and threat emulation, guiding teams to identify and communicate AI-related risks. The role demands leadership, advanced security expertise in AI, and the ability to scale testing through custom tooling and automation,