INTERN: AI RED TEAMING (FALL 2026)

Role Overview • You will try to break the systems we build and the models we protect, and turn what you find into something the team can act on: a reproducible attack, an evaluation that catches it, and a written account of why it works. • Expect some mix of: eliciting unsafe behaviour from aligned LLMs and multi-modal models; prompt injection and tool-use abuse against agentic systems; automating attack generation and evaluation rather than hand-crafting one-off prompts; and measuring whether guardrails hold under pressure. Where RealmLabs' interpretability work gives you access to a model's internals, use it. • We aim for a paper or public technical report out of every internship, plus attacks that stay in our evaluation suite after you leave. Expected Background: Adversarial ML and Red Teaming • Hands-on experience attacking or stress-testing models, from any direction: jailbreaks, prompt injection, adversarial examples, data poisoning, model extraction, or evaluating safety and moderation systems. • Able to read a paper and implement its attack. • (nice to have) Offensive security background outside ML: CTFs, vulnerability research, penetration testing. • (nice to have) Familiarity with agentic systems and their attack surface — tool calls, retrieval, memory, multi-agent orchestration. Expected Background: ML • Machine learning tools: pytorch, huggingface, transformers, datasets. • Applied deep learning and LLM experience. • Training and evaluating deep models. • (nice to have) finetuning LLMs, multi-modal LLMs. • (nice to have) Familiarity with ML[NLP,LLM,Vision] interpretability methods, sparse autoencoders, linear probes — as a way of locating failure modes, not as an end in itself. Expected Background: Software Engineering • Development environments and tools: • unix , git , basic clouds usage on AWS and/or GCP • jupyter • Programming: • python • (nice to have) “programming languages well-roundedness” • experience in statically-typed and functional languages Compensation & Benefits • Market aligned compensation for interns in the bay area. Requirements • Must be authorized to work in the USA or must be able to obtain CPT (Curricular Practical Training) approval from host university.