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AI Safety Risk Analyst Red Teaming
Job Location:
Job Location:
Austin, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
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Posted:
8 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
5 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
We are on the hunt for a dynamic resilient and highly motivated AI Safety Risk Analyst - Red Teaming to be a key player at the cutting edge of AI this pivotal role you will lead efforts to identify and mitigate risks in our advanced language models shaping the responsible development of tomorrows AI. Unlike automated testing that efficiently covers known vulnerabilities this role challenges you to uncover the 40 percent of risks that demand human ingenuity psychological insight and creative out-of-the-ordinary thinking. You will work across diverse modalities text image audio and video to expose weaknesses evaluate real-world harm and stress-test our systems against emerging adversarial threats.
This is high-impact frontier work where your insights directly influence how AI interacts with the world. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from non-traditional backgrounds whether from the arts humanities mental health or education to bring their unique skills to this critical mission.
Responsibilities:
- Creative Adversarial Testing.
- Design and execute novel multi-turn adversarial attacks including emotional manipulation roleplay social engineering and authority exploitation to bypass model safeguards and surface harmful capabilities.
- Vulnerability Assessment.
- Evaluate model outputs for actual harm and real-world risk not just policy violations. Apply the user risk taxonomy to prioritize testing across user types from casual users to agentic systems.
- Agentic and Emerging Threat Testing.
- Probe for agentic vulnerabilities such as privilege escalation indirect prompt injection and scope creep in multi-authority systems the next frontier of AI risk.
- Data Annotation and Reporting.
- Generate high-quality human evaluation data by annotating model failures classifying vulnerabilities and producing reproducible adversarial test cases that engineering and safety teams can act upon.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration.
- Partner with AI researchers engineers and domain experts to translate findings into actionable improvements. Contribute to refining our red teaming taxonomy benchmarks and tooling infrastructure.
- Continuous Learning.
- Stay current with evolving adversarial techniques internet subcultures and AI safety research to continuously sharpen your attack strategies.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Creative and Psychological Insight: Background in creative writing humanities mental health counseling psychology or special education with a demonstrated ability to construct compelling narratives exploit linguistic nuance and identify psychological vulnerabilities.
- Adversarial Mindset: A natural inclination to think like an attacker and push systems to their limits. You should find genuine satisfaction in discovering unexpected failure modes.
- Adaptability: Comfort switching between modalities (text image audio video) and rapidly adjusting to new model behaviors testing priorities and task types.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to document and explain complex vulnerabilities clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Resilience and Balance: Capacity to sustain well-being while engaging in psychologically demanding work. This role involves regular exposure to graphic and objectionable content including violence exploitation and self-harm scenarios. Comprehensive wellness support is provided.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior experience in professional red teaming trust & safety data annotation or socio-technical risk analysis.
- Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and generative AI products such as ChatGPT Claude or Gemini.
- Basic technical skills in prompt engineering encoding techniques (e.g. Base64 ROT13) or scripting to complement creative attack vectors.
- Knowledge of AI safety concepts including RLHF alignment and model evaluation frameworks.
Benefits:
- 401(k).
- Dental Insurance.
- Health insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity equality inclusion and respect for people.
- The salary will be determined based on several factors including but not limited to location relevant education qualifications experience technical skills and business needs.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Participate in OP monthly team meetings and participate in team-building efforts.
- Contribute to OP technical discussions peer reviews etc.
- Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
- Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.
About us:
At OP we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company we offer advisory and managed services innovative platforms and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI cyber security enterprise architecture and beyond. For nearly two decades weve been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry serving up fresh ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.
At OP we help you harness the power of technology for maximum impact. A technology consulting and solutions company we offer advisory and managed services innovative platforms and staffing solutions across a wide range of fields including AI cyber security enterprise architecture and beyond. For nearly two decades weve been challenging the status quo of the consulting industry serving up fresh ingenious thinking through a radically lean structure. Together this strategy delivers unprecedented performance at an unparalleled pace for faster results that propel your business forward.
