San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, and misuse cases. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying vulnerabilities, and ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$20 - $22/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$20 - $22/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$20 - $22/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$20 - $22/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents, focusing on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site +1
$320K - $405K/yr
About the role Anthropic's Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. In this role, you'll take an adversarial approach to ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site +1
$320K - $405K/yr
About the role Anthropic's Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. In this role, you'll take an adversarial approach to ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$29 - $45/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$29 - $45/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$29 - $45/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$29 - $45/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents by performing jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$218K - $387K/yr
The Global Privacy Red Team within PDPO is looking for a senior red team engineer who can operate independently from day one - driving complex assessments end-to-end, pioneering new techniques to ...
San Jose, CA · On-site
$218K - $387K/yr
The Global Privacy Red Team within PDPO is looking for a senior red team engineer who can operate independently from day one - driving complex assessments end-to-end, pioneering new techniques to ...
This team is incubated with the highest priority within the Frontier Red Team, which studies the catastrophic risks and builds and advocates for defenses. See our previous related work on Mythos, N ...
This team is incubated with the highest priority within the Frontier Red Team, which studies the catastrophic risks and builds and advocates for defenses. See our previous related work on Mythos, N ...
Menlo Park, CA · On-site
$217K - $255K/yr
... Red team / offensive security role. Interested in this role? Apply directly on Robinhood's website Apply for this Position #J-18808-Ljbffr
Menlo Park, CA · On-site
$217K - $255K/yr
... Red team / offensive security role. Interested in this role? Apply directly on Robinhood's website Apply for this Position #J-18808-Ljbffr
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$485K - $755K/yr
This team is incubated with the highest priority within the Frontier Red Team, which studies the catastrophic risks and builds and advocates for defenses. See our previous related work on Mythos, N ...
San Francisco, CA · On-site
$485K - $755K/yr
This team is incubated with the highest priority within the Frontier Red Team, which studies the catastrophic risks and builds and advocates for defenses. See our previous related work on Mythos, N ...
Costa Mesa, CA · On-site
$220K - $292K/yr
ABOUT THE JOB As a Staff Red Team Engineer, you are the adversary to our own systems. Your job is to find the wrong assumption, the unmodeled failure mode, and the design weakness before it reaches ...
Costa Mesa, CA · On-site
$220K - $292K/yr
ABOUT THE JOB As a Staff Red Team Engineer, you are the adversary to our own systems. Your job is to find the wrong assumption, the unmodeled failure mode, and the design weakness before it reaches ...
Berkeley, CA · On-site
$250 - $400/hr
You'll manage our growing red-team, own delivery for frontier lab customers, and build the automation that allows us to scale. This is a player-coach role: you'll split your time between writing code ...
Berkeley, CA · On-site
$250 - $400/hr
You'll manage our growing red-team, own delivery for frontier lab customers, and build the automation that allows us to scale. This is a player-coach role: you'll split your time between writing code ...
San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
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San Francisco, CA · Remote
$48 - $62/hr
Red team conversational AI models and agents to identify jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation. * Generate high-quality human data by annotating failures, classifying ...
Palo Alto, CA · On-site
$140 - $170/hr
Product Security Engineer - Red Team/Pen Testing Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, government, and private enterprises are at an all time high - and only growing more urgent by the day. Xage ...
Palo Alto, CA · On-site
$140 - $170/hr
Product Security Engineer - Red Team/Pen Testing Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, government, and private enterprises are at an all time high - and only growing more urgent by the day. Xage ...
About the Team The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI by ...
About the Team The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI by ...
About the Team The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI by ...
About the Team The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in an era of advanced AI by ...
Define and execute the multi-year offensive security roadmap, aligning Red Team, Purple Team, and continuous validation capabilities to Postman's evolving threat landscape and business priorities ...
Define and execute the multi-year offensive security roadmap, aligning Red Team, Purple Team, and continuous validation capabilities to Postman's evolving threat landscape and business priorities ...
Build and run Hadrian's offensive security function: red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across software, robotics/OT, cloud, and physical devices. * Perform reverse ...
Build and run Hadrian's offensive security function: red-team operations, penetration testing, and adversary emulation across software, robotics/OT, cloud, and physical devices. * Perform reverse ...
The Offensive Security team is the "red" pulse of this organization. We don't just find bugs - we simulate the adversary to ensure our defenses hold up under real-world pressure. We focus on ...
The Offensive Security team is the "red" pulse of this organization. We don't just find bugs - we simulate the adversary to ensure our defenses hold up under real-world pressure. We focus on ...
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$48 - $62/hr
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Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: AI Safety Experts — English & Norwegian
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