Senior Engineer AI/ML, Responsible AI Red Team

Empower Company S.R.O. • Greenwood Village, CO

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About The Position

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them. Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself. Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT. The Senior Engineer AI/ML serves as a senior individual contributor on Empower's Responsible AI Team. This role focuses on adversarial testing, safety evaluation, and hardening of GenAI and AI-powered systems. The engineer designs and executes red-team assessments to identify vulnerabilities, failure modes, and misuse risks, and works with engineering, QA, Security, and Responsible AI partners to translate findings into remediation guidance, guardrails, and scalable safety controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4-7 years of professional software or AI/ML engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience building, testing, or evaluating AI/ML or LLM-based systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience developing automated testing or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience working with modern cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Understanding of common GenAI and LLM risk vectors, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, or unsafe outputs.
• Experience collaborating effectively with engineering, security, and product teams.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in red teaming, adversarial testing, or offensive security for AI or ML systems.
• Experience testing or hardening GenAI or LLM-based applications.
• Familiarity with AI safety guardrails, content moderation systems, or Responsible AI evaluation methods.
• Experience building reusable testing frameworks or safety tooling adopted by multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute adversarial testing strategies for AI and GenAI systems, including jailbreaks, prompt injection, unsafe completions, and ungrounded responses.
• Build and maintain automated red-team testing frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and adversarial test suites.
• Analyze model and system behavior to identify safety, robustness, and security vulnerabilities.
• Document findings and provide clear, actionable remediation guidance to application and platform teams.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers to harden applications and workflows based on red-team findings.
• Collaborate with QA to integrate adversarial testing into continuous validation and release pipelines.
• Coordinate with Security teams on LLM threat modeling, vulnerability escalation, and incident support when safety failures occur.
• Contribute to research and prototyping of new adversarial testing techniques and red-team tooling.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees