AI Red Tester/Pen Tester/Ethical Hacker

AI Red Tester/Pen Tester/Ethical Hacker

MetaSense, Inc. is seeking a skilled AI Red Tester/Pen Tester/Ethical Hacker to join their team. This long-term contract role is focused on enhancing the firm's security posture against emerging AI threats through advanced red teaming exercises.

As an AI Red Tester/Pen Tester/Ethical Hacker, you will play a crucial role in simulating real-world deployment scenarios and edge cases, systematically probing AI models for vulnerabilities, biases, and harmful outputs across diverse contexts. Your work will directly contribute to improving security against evolving AI risks.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct red team exercises simulating real-world deployment scenarios and edge cases.
• Systematically probe for bias, toxicity, misinformation generation, and other harmful outputs across diverse contexts and demographics.
• Improve firm’s security posture against emerging AI threats. Concentration is on executing standardized security tests.
• Design and execute comprehensive adversarial testing campaigns against AI models, including but not limited to large language models, multimodal systems, and autonomous agents.
• Research attack vectors and prompt injection techniques to identify model vulnerabilities, jailbreaks, and unintended behaviors.
• Evaluate and introduce AI Security tools that decrease mean time to detect and respond to AI-specific threats.
• Create adversarial datasets and benchmarks to evaluate model robustness under various attack conditions.
• Collaborate with security teams (e.g., GSOC, member firm security teams, developers) to perform red teaming activities, and document and present findings, vulnerabilities, and remediation recommendations to drive the mitigation of identified risks.
• Develop and maintain process documentation, create reports on testing activities, track operational metrics, and perform other programmatic tasks as required to support the AI Red Team’s function.

Skills and Experience Desired

Candidates should bring a minimum of 5 years of penetration testing or red team operations experience. A strong background in AI red teaming, web application penetration testing, application/network penetration testing, red team operations, or cybersecurity is essential. Familiarity with threat intelligence and a deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, software applications, cloud computing, and networking are also desired. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, along with the ability to work effectively across geographies and time zones, are key for this role.

Core Technical Skills Include

• Testing tools: SPLX, Garak, TextAttack, PyRIT, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nessus, Cobalt Strike/Mythic/C2, NMAP, sqlmap, or similar tools.
• Web application technologies: Layer 7 protocols (HTTP, DNS, FTP).
• Technical experience: Generative AI, Agents, A2A, and/or MCP.
• Programming languages: Python, Ruby, Go, PowerShell, bash or similar.

Education

A Bachelor’s or higher degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cybersecurity from an accredited college or university is preferred, or equivalent work experience.

Certifications

OSCP, GPEN, GPXN, AI Red Teamer Job Role Path (HackTheBox), AISEC+, or other industry AI or Red Team-related certifications are desired.

Key skills/competency

• AI Red Teaming
• Penetration Testing
• Ethical Hacking
• Adversarial AI Testing
• Vulnerability Research
• Threat Intelligence
• Python Programming
• Web Application Security
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Cloud Security