Lead Adversarial Engineer

Surge AI is hiring a Lead Adversarial Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Surge AI.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions Anthropic, red teaming and adversarial testing among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a lead role.
Surge AI has 27 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Lead red-teaming and adversarial testing campaigns against frontier AI models to identify and mitigate risks.

anthropic

red-teamingadversarial-testingsecurityprogram-management

About Us

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

Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.

At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute—it's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.

The Role

As a Lead Adversarial Engineer, you’ll run end-to-end red-teaming workstreams against frontier models — scoping threat models, designing campaigns, coordinating operators, and synthesizing results into clear risk pictures and decision-ready reports. You’ll orchestrate structured adversarial exercises across modalities and tools, ensuring coverage, reproducibility, and crisp learning loops.

You won’t just find failures — you’ll build the operational engine that repeatedly surfaces them under realistic constraints. This is a role for someone who thrives on program design, loves turning messy attack spaces into disciplined test plans, and can drive cross-functional execution from kickoff to readout.

What You'll Do

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

What We’re Looking for

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

How we rate this

Lead Adversarial Engineer at Surge AI rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Lead Adversarial Engineer is an open job at Surge AI.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The role is based in United States - Remote and is marked remote.
The job was posted on July 13, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Surge AI. Apply on Surge AI

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Red TeamingAdversarial TestingSecurityProgram ManagementAnthropic

Questions you could be asked

Tell me about a project where red teaming was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where adversarial testing was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where security was part of your work. What did you do?
Tell me about a project where program management was part of your work. What did you do?
Walk me through how you've used Anthropic in your day-to-day work.

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List these exact terms on your resume: Red Teaming, Adversarial Testing, Security, Program Management, and Anthropic. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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