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A real job now: adversarially probing LLMs and multimodal systems for jailbreaks, prompt injection, data exfiltration, and harm.
Sam starts a bug-bash sprint Monday on a new agent release. The team has a harm taxonomy — CSAM, weapons, cyber, self-harm, privacy leaks, autonomous-action harms — and a list of new attack patterns from this quarter's research. By Friday Sam has filed 34 confirmed bypasses, 12 of them novel enough to write up for internal distribution. The model ships Tuesday with patches for 28 of them. The other six are scoped in the system card as known limitations.
| Task | Before AI (2020) | Now (2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Finding jailbreaks | Not a job category. | Full-time teams at every frontier lab. |
| Evaluation | Static benchmarks. | Dynamic, adversarial, continuously rotating. |
| Disclosure | Ad hoc. | Formal process mirroring infosec CVDs. |
If you want to be an AI red teamer: Background in security (offensive security, bug bounty), ML engineering, or adversarial ML research. A CS degree helps; so does a linguistics or psychology background for prompt craft. Read the OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind system cards and model cards cover to cover. Contribute to open red-team tooling. Write up your findings publicly within safe limits. Frontier labs and consultancies hire hard in this space.
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