Strategic AI Safety & Red Team Lead (Remote)

Handshake; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 96.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

401(k) match

Financial coaching

Parental leave

Fertility benefits

Parental coaching

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Learning stipend

Ongoing development

Remote & Office perks (SF office)

Zusammenfassung

Handshake is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) on AI Safety & Red Teaming to own large-scale adversarial testing programs that shape frontier AI models before and after release.

You will design, run, and scale red-teaming efforts, supervise Fellows, and deliver insights to strengthen policies and evaluation coverage across multiple labs and harm domains. This role requires strong ownership, clarity, and the ability to operate in ambiguity.

Qualifikationen

• 2+ years of experience in trust & safety, red-teaming, security research, policy enforcement, or a related technical/analytical field
• Excellent project and workforce management skills, comfortable leading and directing teams of red-teamers and testers against tight timelines and shifting scope
• Strong analytical and first-principles problem-solving skills, comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing testing environments
• Working familiarity with adversarial testing concepts (jailbreak techniques, prompt-based exploits) or a fast ability to pick them up
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior customers and policy teams at frontier AI labs
• High ownership mindset with pride in end-to-end accountability
• Curiosity and ability to quickly learn technical AI concepts, model behavior, and industry trends

Aufgaben

• Own end-to-end execution of red-teaming and safety evaluation programs spanning sensitive, high-severity harm categories, from scoping through delivery
• Run multiple programs across different frontier labs and policy domains, each with its own scope, harm categories, and stakeholders
• Design and run adversarial testing methodologies, such as jailbreak technique development and iterative push-to-failure testing, to surface model vulnerabilities against frontier labs’ policies
• Extend red-teaming methods into agentic contexts, evaluating how models behave under adversarial pressure when operating with tools and multi-step autonomy
• Lead and coordinate teams of expert Fellows executing sensitive, high-stakes testing work, maintaining precision and consistency across harm categories, languages, and markets
• Partner directly with policy leads at frontier AI labs to identify coverage gaps, ambiguous classifications, and emerging risk areas, and help shape policy documents based on findings
• Synthesize testing data into insight reports that surface trends, systemic gaps, and recommended areas of policy and evaluation development
• Design and adapt staffing models for your red-teaming workforce (team size, skill mix, training, and incentive structures) to improve throughput and delivery reliability as program requirements evolve

Kenntnisse

Trust & Safety

Red-teaming

Security research

Policy enforcement

Project management

Analytical thinking

Jobbeschreibung

Handshake is seeking a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) on AI Safety & Red Teaming to own large-scale adversarial testing programs that shape frontier AI models before and after release.

You will design, run, and scale red-teaming efforts, supervise Fellows, and deliver insights to strengthen policies and evaluation coverage across multiple labs and harm domains. This role requires strong ownership, clarity, and the ability to operate in ambiguity.