Surge AI
Lead Adversarial Engineer
United States - Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
About the job
Leads end-to-end red-team programs against frontier AI models, from threat scoping and campaign execution to risk reporting and regression testing.
What you'll do
- Plan and run recurring, multi-week adversarial campaigns, including recruiting operators and defining success criteria.
- Develop scenario banks and attack taxonomies, and track exploit coverage across versions and contexts.
- Deliver risk readouts and issue trackers, then partner with teams to validate fixes and run regressions.
What they ask for
- Experience planning and running adversarial campaigns involving jailbreaks, prompt injection, or tool abuse.
- Ability to design scenarios, controls, and metrics; triage findings and prioritize follow-up based on evidence.
- Ability to brief stakeholders and translate results into actionable remediation plans with owners and timelines.
AI focus
Red-team frontier AI models by testing adversarial vulnerabilities, synthesizing risks, and validating mitigations.
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