Risk Analyst III

itD is seeking a Risk Analyst III – AI Red Teaming Specialist to help strengthen the safety, reliability, and resilience of advanced AI systems by identifying vulnerabilities, evaluating emerging risks, and stress-testing AI models against novel adversarial attacks. This role will play a critical part in shaping AI safety outcomes by uncovering failure modes across text, image, audio, and video modalities and partnering with research and engineering teams to drive meaningful improvements. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in adversarial testing, risk analysis, creative problem-solving, and psychological assessment, along with a proven track record of identifying complex vulnerabilities and producing actionable recommendations.

Location: Fully Onsite – Austin, TX (Open to approved Meta locations)
Time zone Preference: East Coast preferred

Pay Rate: $20 - $25 per hour, depending on experience.

We provide comprehensive medical benefits, a 401k plan, paid holidays, and more.
Please note that we are only considering direct W2 candidates at this time, as we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Design and execute creative, multi-turn adversarial attacks using emotional manipulation, roleplay, social engineering, and authority exploitation techniques.
Evaluate AI model outputs for real-world harm, safety risks, and emerging threats using structured risk assessment methodologies.
Investigate agentic vulnerabilities, including privilege escalation, indirect prompt injection, and scope creep across multi-authority systems.
Annotate model failures, classify vulnerabilities, and create reproducible adversarial test cases to support engineering and safety teams.
Collaborate with AI researchers, engineers, and domain experts to translate findings into actionable product and policy improvements.
Contribute to the development and refinement of red teaming methodologies, evaluation benchmarks, testing frameworks, and risk taxonomies.
Conduct testing across multiple modalities, including text, image, audio, and video content.
Monitor evolving adversarial techniques, online threat trends, internet subcultures, and AI safety research to continuously improve testing strategies.

Internal Responsibilities

Attend regular internal practice community meetings.
Collaborate with your itD practice team on industry thought leadership.
Complete client case studies and learning material (blogs, media material).
Build out material to contribute to the Digital Transformation practice.
Attend internal itD networking events (in person and virtual).
Work with leadership on career fast-track opportunities.

Required Qualifications and Skills

3+ years of experience in AI red teaming, risk analysis, trust & safety, adversarial testing, psychology, humanities, counseling, special education, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated expertise in creative narrative construction and development of complex multi-turn scenarios.
Strong understanding of psychological vulnerabilities, manipulation techniques, and social engineering principles.
Proven adversarial mindset with the ability to systematically identify and exploit failure modes in AI systems.
Experience assessing risk, documenting vulnerabilities, and producing structured evaluation reports.
Ability to rapidly adapt testing strategies across text, image, audio, and video modalities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated resilience and professionalism when working with potentially graphic or objectionable content.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

Prior professional experience in AI red teaming, traditional security red teaming, trust & safety operations, or socio-technical risk analysis.
Familiarity with large language models and generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama.
Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak testing methodologies, and adversarial AI evaluation techniques.
Knowledge of encoding and obfuscation techniques, including Base64, ROT13, Unicode transformations, and similar methods.
Basic scripting experience using Python or comparable programming languages.
Understanding of AI safety concepts, including RLHF, alignment methodologies, and model evaluation frameworks.
Experience with data annotation workflows, vulnerability classification, or labeling operations.
Knowledge of internet subcultures, emerging online threats, and digital risk trends.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Humanities, Communications, Social Sciences, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Company Description
About itD: We are part of a new generation of consulting and software development company that blends diversity, innovation, and integrity with real business results. Our structure rejects any strong hierarchy, empowering us to deliver excellent results. We are a woman- and minority-led firm. Every day, we challenge ourselves to be considerate, fair and to re-think what great outcomes mean for our customers. This permeates down to how we approach every interaction, on every project, for every client. You’ll thrive here if you are a dynamic self-starter, a difference-maker or someone who wants to deliver great results, without constraints.

The itD Digital Experience: Joining us means you’ll be part of our global community, you have a say about your own career journey, and you’ll get a chance to give back to causes that matter. You will experience working with Fortune 500 companies and high-performance teams across numerous industries. itD offers our employees excellent benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, 401K + matching, networking & career learning and development programs. We are growing and we want to see you grow! Visit https://itdtech.com/careers to learn more about what working at itD can mean for you.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. itD is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact us at recruiting@itdtech.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Additional Info
Dynamic environment in a culture of respect, empowerment and recognition for a job well done, apply today!