Red Team Lead, AVP

About the role

DWS is transforming its Technology function and building a focused AI Security capability combining cybersecurity, engineering, architecture, data protection, offensive security and risk expertise. The Red Team Lead, AVP reports to the DWS CSO AI Security CoE Lead and leads adversarial testing of AI platforms and applications to identify exploitable weaknesses, validate security controls and strengthen resilience against emerging AI-driven threats.

Key responsibilities

• Develop the firm's AI red-team methodology and testing standards.
• Test for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, RAG manipulation and agent/tool abuse.
• Conduct adversarial testing of material AI use cases before production.
• Provide risk-rated findings and actionable remediation guidance.
• Track emerging AI attack techniques and incorporate them into testing.

Required profile

• 8+ years of offensive security, penetration testing, application security or vulnerability research experience, with recent hands-on testing of AI/ML, LLM, RAG or agentic systems.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams through remediation, retesting and closure.
• Ability to extend established offensive-security techniques to frontier AI threats such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, RAG manipulation, agent/tool abuse and AI supply-chain attack paths.

Required skills

• Strong experience discovering, validating, risk-rating and communicating vulnerabilities across applications, APIs, cloud platforms, identity and data flows.
• Proven ability to use AI tools to improve productivity and workflow efficiency.

What we offer

• A personalised benefits plan covering healthcare, company perks and retirement planning.
• A hybrid working model, with the office-to-home split discussed during the application and interview process.
• An inclusive, diverse workplace and flexible work arrangements.