AI Red Teamer
Impact: AI System Robustness and Safety
Proactively identifies and exploits vulnerabilities, biases, and potential harms in AI systems through adversarial testing.
What the day looks like
- People interaction
- Moderate
- Team vs solo
- Team-oriented
- Client facing
- Rarely
- Impact visibility
- Very High
- Travel
- Minimal
- Schedule flexibility
- Flexible
- Remote work
- Hybrid
- Typical work hours
- 40-50 hours
- Stress level
- High
At a glance
- Median salary
- $170,000
- Entry-level
- $110,000
- Senior
- $250,000+
- Growth by 2033
- 18%
- Demand
- Growing Fast
- Freelance potential
- Moderate
- Salary growth potential
- Very High
- Typical student debt
- $30,000 to $60,000
Skills you'll use
Hard skills
- Adversarial AI
- Cybersecurity
- Machine Learning
Soft skills
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Ethical Reasoning
Technical complexity: Very High
How to get there
- Minimum education
- Bachelor's Degree
- Licensing
- No
- Years to mid-career
- 8
- Years to senior
- 13
- Career switching
- Moderate
Where this career leads
How people arrive here
Where you can go from here
Typical progression
- Lead AI Red Teamer, AI Security Engineer
Future outlook
- Automation probability
- Low
- AI disruption risk
- Low
- Demand trend
- Growing Fast
How people feel about it
- Overall satisfaction
- 8.7/10
- Meaning
- 9/10
- Work-life balance
- 6.5/10
- Prestige
- 9.2/10
- Social perception
- High