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Lead Adversarial Engineer

Surge AI· Field Engineering & Operations
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Hybrid (Remote / Hybrid)full-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Lead Adversarial Engineer responsible for end-to-end red-teaming against frontier models, scoping threat models, designing campaigns, coordinating operators, and synthesizing results into risk-ready reports. Builds operational engine to surface failures under realistic constraints and drives cross-functional execution from kickoff to readout.

Responsibilities

  • Stand up a recurring red-team cadence: scoping targets, recruiting operators, defining success criteria, and executing multi-week campaigns
  • Create scenario banks and attack taxonomies; ensuring breadth/depth coverage and tracking families of exploits across versions and contexts
  • Produce executive readouts and issue trackers that distill severity, exploitability, and user harm, with crisp reproduction steps and artifacts
  • Partner with research, product, and ops teams to validate fixes and rerun focused regressions; maintaining dashboards for trendlines and residual risk

Qualifications

  • Red-Team Program Leadership – Experience planning and running adversarial campaigns (jailbreaks, prompt injection, tool abuse), including playbooks, ops cadence, and after-action reviews
  • Methodical Experimentation – Strength in designing scenarios, controls, and metrics; comfort triaging findings and prioritizing next passes based on evidence
  • Stakeholder Command – Ability to brief partners, align on objectives, and translate results into actionable remediation tracks with clear owners and timelines

Skills

Required:Red-team leadershipExperiment designStakeholder management
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Surge AI

Human Intelligence for AGI

Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.

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