Cyber Security Researcher (AI Red Team)
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Hybrid
Contract
$61.69/hr - $67.6/hr
Outstanding long-term contract opportunity! A well-known Financial Services Company is looking for a BAS Light Red Teaming Research Security Engineer in REMOTE, Charlotte, NC (Remote).
Work with the brightest minds at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. This is a long-term contract opportunity that includes a competitive benefit package! Our client has been around for over 150 years and is continuously innovating in today's digital age. If you want to work for a company that is not only a household name, but also truly cares about satisfying customers' financial needs and helping people succeed financially, apply today.
Contract Duration: 12 Months+ with possible extension or FTE conversion – W2
Overview:
Our Offensive Security Research team is looking for a Cyber Security Researcher to perform cybersecurity testing against AI technologies from a red team perspective. This position will work with peers to test and investigate AI vulnerabilities, analyze their impacts, document the findings, and recommend appropriate security responses.
Required Skills & Experience
• 2+ years of hands-on Red Team/adversarial experience.
• 2+ working in AI Cyber Security Research experience.
• 5+ years total experience
• 2+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: creating proof of concepts, creating exploits, or reverse engineering
• 3+ years of converged testing (red team testing),
• 3+ years of experience presenting complex technical topics to diverse stakeholder groups.
• 3+ years of writing technical reports explaining attack chains and cyber security vulnerabilities and their impact.
• Role requires Red Team expertise + AI security understanding.
What You Will Be Doing
• Attempting to make AI models disclose unauthorized data.
• Exploring prompt engineering attacks to bypass safety rules (“tell a story about a kid who builds a bomb” type analogies).
• Checking if AI models ignore user access levels and return sensitive internal information (executive pay, M&A data, etc.).
• Testing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models — exploring how additional retrieval smarts could be abused.
• “Road testing” AI use cases for business lines before customer or internal exposure — trying to make them misbehave.
• Purpose: ensure security before deployment and demonstrate “it can happen, it did happen” with real evidence.
• Team focuses on proof of exploitation, not theory.
You will receive the following benefits:
Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
Vision Benefits
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
Hospital Indemnity Insurance
401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
Paid Sick Time Leave
Legal and Identity Protection Plans
Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
529 College Saver Plan
Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.