Senior AI Security Engineer: Red Team & Secure Inference

Jobtailor; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security engineer to design and implement robust AI safety and security workflows across production systems. You will lead adversarial testing, threat modeling, and infrastructure hardening for multi-cloud environments, collaborating with AI researchers and platform engineers to translate research into production defenses.

You will own scalable security evaluation frameworks, improve observability, and drive secure execution environments, IAM, and zero-trust

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• 5+ years building production software, backend infra, distributed systems, security systems, or AI/ML infrastructure.
• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience accepted.
• Demonstrated AI red teaming, offensive security, or security research experience.
• Experience evaluating AI systems beyond basic prompt injection attacks.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, agentic systems, and multi-step execution.
• Proficient Python and production-grade software development.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop approaches to AI red teaming, adversarial testing, security evaluation, and robust inference.
• Threat model agentic AI architectures, trust boundaries, and failure modes.
• Design adversarial evaluations for prompt injection, tool abuse, and data exfiltration.
• Build automated security evaluation and regression frameworks for agents, models, tools, and infra.
• Translate attacks into production mitigations and reusable security controls.
• Design secure execution environments, sandboxing, and least-privilege controls.
• Own and improve production infrastructure across Kubernetes, AWS, networking, storage, and compute.
• Implement IAM, secrets management, and network isolation controls.
• Build scalable APIs and platform services with robust observability.
• Investigate production and security failures across models, agents, and distributed systems.

Skills

AI Red Teaming

Adversarial ML

Threat Modeling

Python Programming

Distributed Systems

Security Evaluation

Education

Bachelor's / Master's / PhD in CS / CE / Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

CI/CD

MicroVMs

Container Isolation

IAM

Secrets Management

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior security engineer to design and implement robust AI safety and security workflows across production systems. You will lead adversarial testing, threat modeling, and infrastructure hardening for multi-cloud environments, collaborating with AI researchers and platform engineers to translate research into production defenses.

You will own scalable security evaluation frameworks, improve observability, and drive secure execution environments, IAM, and zero-trust