AI Red Team Engineer

Location: In-person role based in the London or San Francisco office, with work-from-home arrangements available

Salary: £100,000–£200,000 per year, approximately $150,000–$270,000 USD

Company

hirify.global develops AI safety research, monitoring systems, and the Watcher coding-agent security product, focusing on risks from loss of control and deceptive AI behavior.

What you will do

• Design and run red-teaming campaigns using failure-mode injection, static monitoring benchmarks, and dynamic off-policy control testing.
• Identify novel attack surfaces and monitor-evasion techniques that have not yet been tested.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines for attacking AI monitors at scale.
• Design iterative red-team/blue-team exercises with control researchers to increase attack difficulty as monitors improve.
• Translate campaign findings into actionable recommendations for monitor developers and contribute to external publications and internal reports.
• Feed research findings into Watcher development and Apollo's blue-teaming work.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in offensive security, adversarial machine learning, or AI red-teaming.
• Strong experience using, comparing, or developing frontier AI coding agents.
• Experience designing and executing structured adversarial testing campaigns.
• Strong Python programming skills.
• Strong written communication skills for clear and credible publications and campaign reports.
• Ability to work independently on open-ended adversarial problems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with AI safety concepts, especially agent-related risks.
• Experience with LLM-as-a-judge systems or AI monitoring.
• Background in penetration testing, CTFs, or broader computer security.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and schedule, with work-from-home arrangements.
• Unlimited vacation and sick leave.
• Up to six months of paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance, plus retirement savings with employer matching.
• Provided meals and snacks on workdays, paid work trips, and a $1,000 annual professional development budget.
• Relocation support and visa fees where applicable.

Hiring process

• Screening interview, followed by a three-hour take-home test.
• Three technical interviews and a final interview with the CEO.
• No LeetCode-style general coding interviews; AI tools may be used for the take-home test.