Offensive Security Engineer Jobs in Atlanta, GA (NOW HIRING)

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Job Description

The AI Red Team Lead Engineer leads the execution and evolution of offensive security activities focused on AI/ML systems, platforms, and integrations, in addition to traditional enterprise attack surfaces. Owns the design, execution, and reporting of AI-focused red team operations, adversarial testing, and threat emulation exercises targeting models, data pipelines, AI-enabled applications, and supporting infrastructure. Acts as a senior technical authority and program lead for AI red teaming, partnering with teams to identify, validate, and communicate AI-related risks. Drives maturity through repeatable testing methodologies, automation, custom tooling, and clear articulation of business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead AI Red Team operations, including adversarial testing of:

  • Foundation and custom models (LLMs, vision, speech, decision systems)

  • Model deployment environments (APIs, plugins, agents, RAG pipelines)

  • Training, evaluation, and inference pipelines

  • Data ingestion, labeling, and governance controls

• Design and execute AI-specific threat emulation aligned to real-world adversaries, misuse scenarios, and emerging attack techniques (e.g., prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, jailbreaks, supply chain risks).

• Develop and maintain custom AI red team tooling, frameworks, and automation to scale testing and improve repeatability.

• Perform security research into emerging AI attack techniques, model vulnerabilities, and defensive gaps.

• Partner with detection, engineering, and governance teams to support 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.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience

• Eight plus years of relevant experience

• Thorough understanding of the applicable information security systems, policies, and procedures

• Effective communication, presentation skills, leadership, problem-solving and analytical skills

• Proven collaboration and influencing skills

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Hands-on experience testing or securing AI/ML systems, including LLMs or other model classes

• Knowledge of AI threat models and attack techniques including, but not limited to, prompt injection, model extraction, training data poisoning, inference abuse, hallucination exploitation

• Familiarity with AI platforms and tooling (e.g., model APIs, orchestration frameworks, evaluation pipelines)

• Significant red team experience, including adversary emulation and multi-stage attack chains

• Proven skill developing proof-of-concept exploits and custom offensive tooling

• Strong understanding of red team and offensive AI techniques and tooling

• Expertise defeating or bypassing endpoint and AI-adjacent security controls (EDR/XDR, API protections, guardrails)

• Experience with cloud, containerized, and AI-hosting environments

• Proficiency in one or more languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Go, C/C++, Shell)

• Ability to translate research into operational tooling

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to ourdisability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

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The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $126,820.00 - $149,200.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.