AI Security Leader - Red Teaming - Lead the team, still own the attack chain
CareerXperts Consulting- Posted 19 hours ago
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Job Description
We're looking for an AI Red Team Lead to run a highly technical team performing adversarial security testing across AI systems and traditional cybersecurity environments. This is both a hands-on technical role and a people-leadership role — a former red teamer or penetration tester who's grown into leadership while staying technically current.
You'll be the person who can discuss an attack chain in depth with a red teamer, review a proof-of-concept with an engineer, explain risk to a CISO, and lead a customer conversation — all while building and mentoring a high-performing technical team.
What You'll Do:
Lead and mentor a red-team org of 5+ security professionals
Own planning and execution of complex red-team and adversarial-security engagements
Set technical direction across AI red teaming, AppSec, network, identity, endpoint, cloud, and adversary emulation
Oversee AI/LLM assessments — prompt injection, agent security, RAG, tool abuse, excessive agency, data leakage
Ensure traditional offensive coverage — privilege escalation, lateral movement, Active Directory, web/API, persistence, exfiltration
Review findings and deliverables for technical quality; translate complex risk into business impact
Serve as technical authority in customer and executive conversations
Establish methodologies, standards, and quality controls for the red-team function
Stay hands-on enough to validate attack paths and support complex engagements directly
What you bring:
5+ years of offensive-security experience
Proven experience leading a red team of 5+ people
Hands-on background as a Red Teamer, Pentester, Offensive Security Engineer, or Security Researcher
Strong web/API security, privilege escalation, lateral movement, AD, identity attacks, exfiltration
Strong MITRE ATT&CK knowledge; working knowledge of AI/LLM security, OWASP LLM risks, MITRE ATLAS
Strong customer-facing experience — technical and executive audiences
Proven ability to lead multiple simultaneous technical engagements
Bonus: experience building/scaling a red-team function, AI/LLM red-team work, BAS/exposure validation experience, OSCP/OSEP/OSWE/CRTO/GXPN, CTF/vuln research/CVE/conference background.
If you've done the work yourself and can lead others to do it well — let's talk. Write to [Confidential Information]
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Key Skills
AI LLM security
MITRE ATLAS
exfiltration
AI LLM assessments
lateral movement
RAG tool abuse
prompt injection
offensive-security
web API security
adversary emulation
AppSec
privilege escalation
OWASP LLM risks
agent security
