About the job
Gray Swan’s Red Team Engineers are the hands-on practitioners behind both our popular Arena challenges and private red team engagements. You’ll design realistic attack scenarios, find vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems, and translate your findings into clear and actionable reports.
Responsibilities
- Design new challenges and adversarial scenarios for ongoing and upcoming Arena competitions
- Work red teaming engagements with external clients, covering areas like prompt injection, tool use, and agent exploitation
- Use Slack, Linear, our Arena design editor, and AI tools to deliver red-teaming results on time and with high quality
- Build internal tools and processes for the Arena (e.g., cheating detection) and support operational tasks like break verification and prize distribution.
- Work alongside Product and Engineering teams to create realistic scenarios that highlight attack surfaces in frontier systems
- Help shape the future of Gray Swan Arena with novel ideas and challenge types
Qualifications
Minimum
- 1+ years of experience in AI red teaming, adversarial ML, or related security research
- Organized and comfortable working independently across multiple concurrent engagements
- Proven ability to convey technical ideas in accessible reports
- Comfortable with quick pivots and changing priorities.
- Background in traditional security research, CTFs, or penetration testing.
Preferred
- Experience as a Gray Swan Arena competitor is a plus.
- Experience with AI red teaming beyond LLM prompt injection
- Degree or experience equivalent in Computer Science or related field
- Familiarity with multimodal attack surfaces
- Coding experience for automating or scaling test cases