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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.

What you will do:

• 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.

What you will bring:

• 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.

Technology Environment:

• Cloud platforms such as AWS, including GenAI and ML services.
• Python-based testing frameworks, scripting, and automation tools.
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling supporting automated testing and validation.
• APIs, microservices, and GenAI orchestration patterns.
• Monitoring, logging, and telemetry tools used to analyze system behavior and failures.

Security and Risk Alignment:

• Apply security-by-design and Responsible AI principles when designing adversarial tests and evaluations.
• Partner with Security teams to support threat modeling and coordinated vulnerability assessment for AI systems.
• Participate in incident response activities related to AI safety or misuse events when red-team findings surface critical risks.

What Will Set You Apart:

• 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.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job.  The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time.   You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description.   You may be required perform other duties that are not included on this job description.  The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

What we offer you

We offer an array of diverse and inclusive benefits regardless of where you are in your career. We believe that providing our employees with the means to lead healthy balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

• 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.

Base Salary Range

The salary range above shows the typical minimum to maximum base salary range for this position in the location listed. Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program. Sales positions are eligible for sales incentives, and in some instances a bonus plan, whereby total compensation may far exceed base salary depending on individual performance. Actual compensation offered may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer.

Equal opportunity employer •  Drug-free workplace

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age (40 and over), race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law. 

***For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption. You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or DSL internet. Other necessary computer equipment, will be provided. You may be required to work in the office if you do not have an adequate home work environment and the required internet connection.***

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