Senior Manager, AI Red Team, Threat Operations
Amazon · Caroline County, MD · 2 wk ago
RemoteRemoteQuality AssuranceFull-time
About the role
The Senior Manager leads our AI Red Team within Threat Operations. The role involves building and leading a team of security engineers and researchers focused on security research and offensive security operations targeting AI systems, infrastructure, and emerging threats.
Responsibilities
- Building and leading a team of security engineers with expertise in offensive security, AI/ML systems, threat intelligence, and security automation
- Establishing and driving the strategic vision for AI offensive security research, focusing on emergent threats and novel attack surfaces in the AI ecosystem
- Overseeing sophisticated Red Team operations targeting AI assets including training pipelines, inference systems, model architectures, and supporting infrastructure
- Driving cross-organizational security initiatives to assess how growing reliance on AI introduces new vulnerabilities across the enterprise
- Partnering with security teams to protect critical AI offerings and ensure customer security in AI workloads
- Developing scalable offensive security automation and AI-augmented testing tools that can be shared across the organization
- Translating technical security findings into strategic recommendations for senior leadership, clearly articulating business impact and risk
- Recruiting, mentoring, and developing security talent with diverse backgrounds spanning offensive security and AI/ML expertise
- Fostering collaboration between security engineers and research scientists to advance the field of AI security
- Establishing metrics and reporting frameworks to demonstrate security program effectiveness and drive continuous improvement
- Building relationships with security leadership, product teams, and business stakeholders to drive consensus on complex security issues and risk remediation strategies
Requirements
- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in offensive security, security engineering, or related security domains
- 3+ years of experience managing security teams or leading security programs
- Proven track record of building and scaling security capabilities in complex technology organizations
Qualifications
- Deep understanding of AI/ML security including threats to AI systems, adversarial machine learning, or AI supply chain security
- Experience leading Red Team operations, penetration testing programs, or offensive security research initiatives
- Track record of establishing new security programs or capabilities from the ground up
- Experience working across large organizations to drive security outcomes and build stakeholder consensus
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical security findings into strategic business recommendations for executive audiences
- Experience with cloud security programs at scale
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in offensive security domains
- Proven ability to recruit and develop diverse technical talent with specialized skillsets
- Experience fostering collaboration between security practitioners and research scientists or applied researchers