Jailbreaking Lead, Red Team

The role

The Jailbreaking Lead will own the technical engine of the red team by personally breaking the hardest frontier AI models. You will spend 50-70% of your time hands-on breaking models and inventing new attack techniques. The role also involves managing or mentoring individual contributors and shaping the jailbreaking research agenda.

What you will do

• Personally develop universal and near-universal jailbreaks against frontier closed- and open-weight models
• Systematically dismantle defense-in-depth stacks by chaining novel and established techniques
• Escalate initial vulnerabilities to expose their most severe form
• Own the technical bar for vulnerability severity and generality on every major engagement
• Invent new attack classes when existing techniques fail
• Monitor and rapidly incorporate state-of-the-art methods from the literature
• Shape the jailbreaking research agenda in partnership with Kellin
• Stress-test novel affordances like agents, tool use, and multimodal systems
• Mentor ICs on attack craft through pairing sessions and internal write-ups
• Work with frontier labs and government agencies to ensure findings lead to real mitigations

Required qualifications

• Track record of finding non-obvious, high-severity vulnerabilities in frontier AI systems
• Deep, hands-on jailbreaking experience with modern frontier models and layered defenses
• Experience with black-box optimization methods, multimodal attacks, and/or agentic red-teaming
• Deep understanding of large language model architectures, training processes, and failure modes
• Strong existing track record in AI, adversarial ML, security, or another highly technical subject

Nice to have

• Prior collaboration with AI labs, security teams, or government safety institutes
• A track record in top CTF teams, offensive security research, or adversarial ML research
• Published work in AI safety, security, or robustness
• Ability to communicate technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Prior experience mentoring technical ICs or leading a small technical team

Benefits

• Health Insurance - 94% of Insurance premium paid by Organization commencing within 1 month after your start date
• Retirement - 401(k) plan with up to 2% match
• 25 days Paid Time Off per year, accrued weekly
• Up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Bereavement, Family, Medical and Pregnancy Disability Leave
• Work computer and stipend provided for eligible employees
• Catered lunches and dinners on workdays at our Berkeley office
• Work-related travel and equipment expenses paid

Before you apply

• We can sponsor US or Singapore visas

About the company

FAR.AI is a non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. The organization conducts pre-deployment testing for frontier developers and governments and publishes the AI Security Leaderboard.