AI Red Team Lead Engineer
U.S. Bank · Cincinnati, OH ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Security
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 126,820 – 149,200 / year
U.S. Bank · Cincinnati, OH ·
Leads offensive security testing for AI/ML systems at a major bank, designing red-team exercises to probe models, pipelines, and AI-enabled apps for vulnerabilities like prompt injection and data poisoning.
At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
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 our disability 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.
E-Verify
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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 - $149,200.00U.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.