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AI Red Teamer job title trend since Apr 2011

Research · Fading · in 0% of HN hiring posts · no open roles tracked

First sighting

Attacks models before release: finds jailbreaks, harmful outputs and misuse, and turns them into fixes and evals.

first seen Aug 2024, Hacker News

Why it exists

Written from the sources below

Before releasing frontier models, labs pay people to attack them: find harmful outputs, jailbreaks and misuse. OpenAI opened a Red Teaming Network to outside experts in September 2023, and the US executive order of October 2023 asked developers of powerful models to report red-team test results.

  1. PostingOpenAI Red Teaming NetworkOpenAI, Sep 2023 · backs: an open call for domain experts to red-team OpenAI's models
  2. PolicyExecutive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial IntelligenceFederal Register, Nov 2023 · backs: red-team testing results reported for powerful models
  3. DefinedRed teamWikipedia, 2026 · backs: red teaming as an adversarial practice from security
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Share of Hacker News hiring posts

1 posts since Apr 2011
November 2026 0 of 207 postings, 0%
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About this title

Attacks models before release: finds jailbreaks, harmful outputs and misuse, and turns them into fixes and evals.

Also counted: red teamer, AI red teaming

First sighting
...contributing to open-source projects. Help us build the AI red team for everyone and make AI development safer and more reliable!
Promptfoo, Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)

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