Senior Manager, AI Red Team, Threat Operations

Description

Application deadline: Apr 4, 2026

We are looking for an experienced Senior Manager to lead our AI Red Team within Threat Operations. You will build and lead a team of security engineers and researchers focused on security research and offensive security operations targeting AI systems, infrastructure, and emerging threats. This role is responsible for establishing our AI offensive security research program, driving sophisticated Red Team operations across our AI portfolio, and ensuring we stay ahead of threat actors in the rapidly evolving AI security landscape. You will partner with security leadership, business stakeholders, and engineering organizations to protect critical customer trust points and drive meaningful security improvements.

As a Senior Manager, you will set strategic direction for AI security research and offensive operations while building a high-performing team with diverse expertise spanning traditional Red Team skills and deep AI/ML knowledge. You'll be responsible for delivering security outcomes across our AI products and infrastructure. This position requires a leader who can balance hands-on technical depth with strategic thinking, translating complex security findings into actionable business impact while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Key job responsibilities
- Building and leading a team of security engineers with expertise in offensive security, AI/ML systems, threat intelligence, and security automation
- Establishing and driving the strategic vision for AI offensive security research, focusing on emergent threats and novel attack surfaces in the AI ecosystem
- Overseeing sophisticated Red Team operations targeting AI assets including training pipelines, inference systems, model architectures, and supporting infrastructure
- Driving cross-organizational security initiatives to assess how growing reliance on AI introduces new vulnerabilities across the enterprise
- Partnering with security teams to protect critical AI offerings and ensure customer security in AI workloads
- Developing scalable offensive security automation and AI-augmented testing tools that can be shared across the organization
- Translating technical security findings into strategic recommendations for senior leadership, clearly articulating business impact and risk
- Recruiting, mentoring, and developing security talent with diverse backgrounds spanning offensive security and AI/ML expertise
- Fostering collaboration between security engineers and research scientists to advance the field of AI security · Establishing metrics and reporting frameworks to demonstrate security program effectiveness and drive continuous improvement
- Building relationships with security leadership, product teams, and business stakeholders to drive consensus on complex security issues and risk remediation strategies

About the team
The Threat Operations team protects critical customer trust points through offensive security operations and emergent threat research. Our mission spans validating security across diverse technology landscapes, from AWS to satellite communications and autonomous systems to frontier AI models and advertising platforms. We simulate sophisticated threat actors, validate security assumptions, and identify novel risk patterns that drive meaningful security improvements. The team comprises security professionals with a cross-section of national security and private sector experience, providing a range of perspectives required for creative problem solving. We value diversity of thought, creativity, and a strong Bias for Action and Earn Trust. We believe that there are no "perfect" security solutions and we develop and iterate using a continuous improvement process.

Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security?
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Training & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic Qualifications

- Knowledge of information security technologies such as security design review, threat modeling, risk analysis, and software testing techniques
- Minimum 10+ years of experience in offensive security, security engineering, or related security domains
- 3+ years of experience managing security teams or leading security programs
- Proven track record of building and scaling security capabilities in complex technology organizations

Preferred Qualifications

- 15+ years of experience in offensive security or security engineering roles with increasing leadership responsibility
- 5+ years of people management experience, including hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing security engineers
- Deep understanding of AI/ML security including threats to AI systems, adversarial machine learning, or AI supply chain security
- Experience leading Red Team operations, penetration testing programs, or offensive security research initiatives
- Track record of establishing new security programs or capabilities from the ground up
- Experience working across large organizations to drive security outcomes and build stakeholder consensus
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical security findings into strategic business recommendations for executive audiences
- Experience with cloud security programs at scale
- Strong technical background with hands-on experience in offensive security domains
- Proven ability to recruit and develop diverse technical talent with specialized skillsets
- Experience fostering collaboration between security practitioners and research scientists or applied researchers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, , - 208,300.00 - 281,800.00 USD annually