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Empower · 9 hours ago

Senior Engineer AI/ML, Responsible AI Red Team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$125K/yr - $182K/yr

4+ years exp

Empower is dedicated to transforming financial lives and fostering a flexible work environment. The Senior Engineer AI/ML will focus on adversarial testing and safety evaluation of AI-powered systems, collaborating with various teams to identify vulnerabilities and enhance system security.

Employee BenefitsNon ProfitSocial

No H1B

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

Adversarial testingAI/ML engineeringPythonAWSRed teamingCollaborationDocumentationProblem-solving

Required

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

Benefits

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 collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.