Senior Engineer AI​/ML, AI Red Team

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

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Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.

• Design and execute adversarial testing strategies for AI and GenAI systems, including jailbreaks, prompt injection, unsafe completions, and ungrounded responses.
• Build and maintain automated red-team testing frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and adversarial test suites.
• Analyze model and system behavior to identify safety, robustness, and security vulnerabilities.
• Document findings and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance to application and platform teams.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers to harden applications and workflows based on red-team findings.
• Collaborate with QA to integrate adversarial testing into continuous validation and release pipelines.
• Coordinate with Security teams on LLM threat modeling, vulnerability escalation, and incident support when safety failures occur.
• Contribute to research and prototyping of new adversarial testing techniques and red-team tooling.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4-7 years of professional software or AI/ML engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, or evaluating AI/ML or LLM-based systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing automated testing or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience working with modern cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Understanding of common GenAI and LLM risk vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, or unsafe outputs.
• Experience collaborating effectively with engineering, security, and product teams.

• Cloud platforms such as AWS, including GenAI and ML services.
• Python-based testing frameworks, scripting, and automation tools.
• CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops tooling supporting automated testing and validation.
• APIs, microservices, and GenAI orchestration patterns.
• Monitoring, logging, and telemetry tools used to analyze system behavior and failures.

• Apply security-by-design and Responsible AI principles when designing adversarial tests and evaluations.
• Partner with Security teams to support threat modeling and coordinated vulnerability assessment for AI systems.
• Participate in incident response activities related to AI safety or misuse events when red-team findings surface critical risks.

• Prior experience in red teaming, adversarial testing, or offensive security for AI or ML systems.
• Experience testing or hardening GenAI or LLM-based applications.
• Familiarity with AI safety guardrails, content moderation systems, or Responsible AI evaluation methods.
• Experience building reusable testing frameworks or safety tooling adopted by multiple teams.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description.

The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time - 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and…