AI Red Team Engineer

Location: In-person role based in the London or San Francisco office, with flexible working hours and work-from-home arrangements. Visa sponsorship is available in both the UK and US.

Salary: San Francisco $182,000–$238,000; London £122,000–£160,000.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and run red-teaming campaigns using failure-mode injection, static monitoring benchmarks, and dynamic off-policy control testing.
• Discover novel attack surfaces and evasion vectors that AI monitors have not yet been tested against.
• Build and maintain automated pipelines for attacking monitors at scale.
• Design iterative adversarial red-team and blue-team games with control researchers.
• Convert campaign findings into actionable recommendations for monitor developers and feed them into Watcher and Apollo’s research.
• Write external publications and internal campaign reports.

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 and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently on open-ended adversarial problems.
• Ability to work in person from the London or San Francisco office.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and work-from-home arrangements.
• Unlimited vacation and sick leave.
• Up to 6 months of paid parental leave.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus retirement savings with employer matching.
• Paid work trips, conferences, staff retreats, 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 general LeetCode-style coding interview; AI tools may be used for the take-home assignment.