Security Researcher (AI/LLM Offensive Track)

SECURITY RESEARCHER – AI/LLM OFFENSIVE SECURITY

Role Summary

Help us break, understand, and harden today’s reasoning-grade language models. Prompt-injection now tops OWASP’s LLM risk list

, MITRE ATLAS tracks real-world AI attacks

, and the NIST AI RMF stresses the need for empirical red-team evidence

. You will expose vulnerabilities in OpenAI o3, Anthropic Sonnet, Google Gemini and future models, then partner with engineering to neutralise them.

Key Responsibilities

• 35 % Red-Team & Exploit R&D – design jailbreaks, indirect prompt injections and chain-of-thought leaks; build fuzzing harnesses and automated exploit suites
• 25 % Threat-Modelling & Framework Alignment – map findings to OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS; feed results into internal AI RMF playbooks
• 20 % Prototype Defences – co-develop prompt firewalls, retrieval guardrails and fine-tuning strategies; leverage approaches like Google’s multi-layered red teaming
• and Anthropic’s Constitutional Classifiers that cut jailbreak success to 4.4 %
• 10 % Community & Disclosure – publish CVEs and speak at DEF CON AI Village / Red Team Village
• 10 % AI-for-AI Tooling – build autonomous agents that self-red-team models, informed by the latest academic reviews

Required Skills

• Strong Python with ML tooling (PyTorch/JAX)
• Deep understanding of prompt engineering, chain-of-thought reasoning and its security implications
• Offensive security mindset: CTF, bug-bounty or exploit-dev experience
• Fluency in OWASP, MITRE ATLAS and NIST AI RMF terminology
• Ability to translate complex findings into concise, actionable reports

Bonus Points

• Publications on adversarial ML or supply-chain attacks
• GPU optimisation or large-scale model fine-tuning expertise
• Familiarity with cloud AI security services
• Open-source maintainer or notable rankings on platforms like HackTheBox

What We Offer

• Mentorship from seasoned AI red-teamers
• Remote-first culture with an optional four-day work week for better balance
• Annual “Ship-It” budget for conferences such as DEF CON and Black Hat
• Equity from day 1

First 90 Days

1. Reproduce existing exploits and study current playbooks.
2. Own the threat map for one flagship model.
3. Deliver at least one novel exploit plus mitigation into production testing.
4. Share your research in a public technical blog post.

Application Process

• Submit résumé and portfolio.
• Complete a 48-hour async challenge: jailbreak our sandboxed model.
• Pair-program deep-dive with the CTO.
• Culture chat.
• Offer.

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