AI Red Team Engineer
Apollo Research4 days ago
London, United Kingdom or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$182k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and execute severity-graded red-teaming campaigns against AI monitors using real trajectories, static benchmarks, and dynamic off-policy control red-teaming.
- Identify novel attack surfaces and monitor-evasion methods that have not been tested previously.
- Build and maintain automated red-teaming pipelines that attack monitors at scale.
- Design iterative adversarial red-team/blue-team games with the RS (Control) team.
- Track research literature and real-world incidents involving agent failure modes, monitor evasion, and adversarial robustness.
- Produce actionable recommendations for monitor developers regarding intervention timing, user authorization, trust boundaries, and monitor visibility.
- Write external publications and internal campaign reports.
- Feed red-team findings into Watcher monitor development and Apollo blue-teaming research.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in offensive security, adversarial ML, or AI-system red-teaming.
- Strong experience using, comparing, or directly developing frontier AI coding agents.
- Experience designing and executing structured adversarial testing campaigns.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Strong written communication skills for clear and credible publications and campaign write-ups.
- Ability to work independently on open-ended adversarial problems.
- Familiarity with AI safety concepts, particularly agent-related risks, is preferred.
- Experience with LLM-as-a-judge systems or AI monitoring is preferred.
- Background in penetration testing, CTFs, or computer security is preferred.
Benefits
- Market-competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
- Flexible work hours and schedule.
- Unlimited vacation and sick leave.
- Up to 6 months of paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings with competitive employer matching, including 401(k) for US employees.
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays.
- Paid work trips, staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences.
- $1,000 USD yearly professional development budget.
- Relocation support and visa fees if applicable.
- Full-time, in-person role based in the London or San Francisco office with flexible work-from-home arrangements.
- Apollo Research sponsors visas in the UK and US, subject to role and candidate circumstances.