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AI Red Teamer (Seattle)

Handshake · Seattle, WA · On-site

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About Handshake

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.

About the role

As an AI Red Teamer, you will stress-test large language models by intentionally trying to break them. Rather than checking whether an answer is correct, you will design creative, adversarial prompts that expose vulnerabilities: unsafe content, bias, broken guardrails, hallucinations, prompt injection weaknesses, and unexpected behaviors. Your work directly supports AI safety and model robustness for leading research labs.

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Type: Contract, 40 hours per week

As an AI Red Teamer, you will stress-test large language models by intentionally trying to break them. Rather than checking whether an answer is correct, you will design creative, adversarial prompts that expose vulnerabilities: unsafe content, bias, broken guardrails, hallucinations, prompt injection weaknesses, and unexpected behaviors. Your work directly supports AI safety and model robustness for leading research labs.

This is a generalist red teaming role. You will probe models across the full spectrum of risk categories, including content safety, CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear), cybersecurity, persuasion and influence operations, child safety, self-harm, over-companionship, and regulatory compliance. Red teaming may span text, image, voice, and agentic model capabilities depending on project needs.

This role requires creativity, curiosity, and an ability to think like an adversary while operating with strong ethical judgment.

Craft creative prompts and multi-turn scenarios to stress-test AI guardrails across diverse risk categories

Discover ways around safety filters, restrictions, and defenses using jailbreak, evasion,...

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