U.S. Bank

AI Red Team Lead Engineer

U.S. Bank
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21 days ago
Cincinnati, OH, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$127k - $149k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead AI red team operations and adversarial testing of models, APIs, plugins, agents, RAG pipelines, training and inference pipelines, and data controls.
  • Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation covering prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, jailbreaks, and supply chain risks.
  • Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling, frameworks, and automation.
  • Research emerging AI attack techniques, model vulnerabilities, and defensive gaps.
  • Partner with detection, engineering, and governance teams on 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.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Eight or more years of relevant experience.
  • Thorough understanding of applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures.
  • Effective communication, presentation, leadership, problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and influencing skills.
  • Hands-on experience testing or securing AI/ML systems, including LLMs or other model classes.
  • Knowledge of AI threat models and techniques such as prompt injection, model extraction, training data poisoning, inference abuse, and hallucination exploitation.
  • Familiarity with model APIs, orchestration frameworks, and evaluation pipelines.
  • Significant red team experience, including adversary emulation and multi-stage attack chains.
  • Experience developing proof-of-concept exploits and custom offensive tooling.
  • Expertise bypassing endpoint and AI-adjacent security controls, including EDR/XDR, API protections, and guardrails.
  • Experience with cloud, containerized, and AI-hosting environments.
  • Proficiency in one or more of Python, PowerShell, Go, C, C++, or Shell.
  • Ability to translate research into operational tooling.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision healthcare coverage.
  • Basic and optional term life insurance.
  • Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave.
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan.
  • Paid vacation of two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure.
  • Up to 11 paid holidays.
  • Adoption assistance.
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour per 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
  • The role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.
  • Additional benefits may include incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, 401(k) contributions, and pension, subject to eligibility.

Tech Stack

CC++GoPowerShellPython

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U.S. Bank

About U.S. Bank

10,000+ employees

U.S. Bank is a public commercial bank offering consumer banking, commercial and institutional banking, payments, wealth management, and custody services to individuals and businesses. It earns revenue from interest on loans and securities and from fees across payments, asset management, and treasury services; it is the fifth-largest U.S. commercial bank, headquartered in Minneapolis, and trades on the NYSE as U.S. Bancorp (USB).

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