Key Responsibilities :

Adversarial ML & Model Security Testing :

- Design and execute adversarial attack campaigns (evasion, model inversion, membership inference, model extraction, data poisoning) against pod deliverables including document intelligence, predictive-analytics and fraud-scoring models, and visual AI, face-embedding and liveness models.

- Develop and maintain a reusable adversarial ML attack library and test harness for repeatable pre-production evaluation.

- Produce adversarial-robustness reports for each pod service with quantitative measures, reproducible attack notebooks, and prioritised mitigation guidance.

LLM, RAG & Agentic AI Red Teaming :

- Lead structured red-team exercises against LLM, RAG and agentic AI deployments across the programme.

- Cover prompt injection, jailbreaks, indirect prompt injection via retrieved documents, data exfiltration, unsafe tool invocation, sandbox escape and policy-boundary violations by agents.

- Develop and maintain red-team playbooks tailored to government AI use cases; publish anonymised playbooks and evaluation sets to AIKosh under standard metadata.

- Advise pods on guardrail selection, output filtering, RAG source-integrity controls, retrieval provenance, and agent policy design.

Hallucination, Calibration & Responsible AI Evaluation :

- Design and run hallucination measurement, groundedness checks, and calibration/uncertainty evaluation for RAG systems and generative outputs across teams.

- Run bias and fairness audits using quantitative metrics (demographic parity, equalised odds, calibration, subgroup accuracy).

- Conduct explainability evaluation (SHAP, LIME, Captum) and lightweight privacy impact assessments on team deliverables.

- Author the technical safety evaluation content in model cards, dataset sheets, bias/hallucination/safety evaluation reports, and Responsible AI evidence per the MeitY Responsible AI advisory and the IndiaAI Safe & Trusted AI framework.

AI Security Architecture & Threat Modelling :

- Own AI-specific threat modelling end-to-end for all pod systems under development (STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS and OWASP Top 10 for LLMs) including data pipelines, retrieval sources, model artefacts, prompt paths, tool interfaces and output surfaces.

- Review deployment configurations across IndiaAI Compute, on-premise/sovereign GPU and CSP-API paths for AI-specific security risks; recommend controls and defensive patterns.

- Contribute AI security and Responsible AI requirements to NeGD RFQs, RDRs and procurement documents; review empanelled-agency proposals for AI security posture.

Cross-Programme Advisory, Upskilling & Governance Input :

- Advise each teams AI QA Engineer on safety and Responsible AI test design, sample selection, evaluation metrics and evidence capture.

- Brief and upskill teams on AI-specific security concerns and Responsible AI controls.

Research, Publication & Knowledge Transfer :

- Track adversarial ML, LLM safety, agentic-AI safety and Responsible AI research literature; translate relevant findings into team-usable checks, controls and evaluation additions.

- Maintain the programmes open-source AI safety testing toolkit; deposit reusable notebooks, evaluation harnesses and playbooks to OpenForge, and publish reusable evaluation sets and safety artefacts to AIKosh under standard metadata for reuse.

Technical Competencies :

- Programming & ML Frameworks : Python (advanced); PyTorch or TensorFlow; Hugging Face Transformers; standard data-science tooling (NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn).

- Adversarial ML : Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART), Foolbox, CleverHans or equivalent; ability to implement custom attacks and defences; knowledge of certified-robustness techniques.

- LLM & Agentic AI Red Teaming : Demonstrable production-relevant experience with prompt injection, jailbreak, indirect-prompt-injection, data-exfiltration, tool-misuse, sandbox-escape and multi-turn manipulation; familiarity with LLM guardrail frameworks (NeMo Guardrails, Guardrails AI, Llama Guard) and open red-team datasets.

- Hallucination, Calibration & RAG Evaluation : RAGAS or equivalent; groundedness metrics, faithfulness scoring, retrieval quality metrics, calibration and uncertainty quantification; ability to build custom evaluation harnesses for RAG and generative pipelines.

- Threat Modelling & AI Security Frameworks : STRIDE, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, OWASP ML Top 10; ability to translate threat models into control specifications and test cases.

- Explainability & Fairness : SHAP, LIME, Captum for model explainability; Fairlearn and AI Fairness 360 for fairness metrics; ability to design subgroup-fairness protocols for identity verification, fraud and predictive models.

- Privacy-Enhancing Techniques : Working awareness of differential privacy, federated learning, PII redaction and anonymisation techniques; ability to run privacy impact assessments on model and data pipelines.

- Government Frameworks & Standards : IndiaAI Safe & Trusted AI framework, MeitY Responsible AI advisory, MeitY Security Policy and Guidelines, CERT-In directions, DPDPA 2023.

- Communication & Advisory : Ability to author clear technical safety reports for a mixed engineering, architecture and executive audience; ability to brief and upskill non-AI-security engineers and compliance colleagues; ability to represent the programme in cross-ministerial working groups.

Minimum Evidence at Screening (one required) :

- Peer-reviewed or workshop-published research on adversarial ML, AI security, LLM safety or Responsible AI.

- Documented red-team exercise with verifiable outcomes against a production or production-like AI system.

- Open-source contribution to an adversarial ML, AI safety, LLM evaluation, or guardrail project with verifiable commit history.

- Prior AI red-teaming, safety, or Responsible AI assessment engagement for a government, BFSI, healthcare or regulated-sector client, verifiable via reference or letter of confirmation.

Educational Qualification :

- B.Tech./B.E. or M.Tech./M.S./M.Sc. in Computer Science, Information Security, AI/ML, or a related quantitative discipline (Must have).

- Advanced degree (M.Tech./M.S./Ph.D.) with a thesis or published work in adversarial ML, AI security, LLM safety, or Responsible AI is highly desirable.

- Certifications (Desirable) : OSCP, GWAPT or CEH combined with demonstrable AI/ML security work; DeepLearning.AI or equivalent ML foundations; MLSecOps or LLM-security specialist certifications where available.

- Non-traditional backgrounds with demonstrable adversarial ML research, published safety work, credible LLM red-team disclosures, or CTF/red-team achievements will be considered in lieu of formal qualification.

Experience :

- 6+ years total in ML, applied AI, security research, or a closely related discipline; minimum 3 years specifically in adversarial ML, AI red teaming, LLM safety evaluation, or AI/ML security research.

- Demonstrable hands-on LLM red-teaming experience with documented prompt-injection, jailbreak, indirect-prompt-injection or agentic-tool-misuse campaigns against production or production-like systems.

- Demonstrable adversarial ML work (evasion, model inversion, membership inference, model extraction, or data poisoning) against non-toy classifiers, vision models, or NLP systems.

- Prior experience delivering safety, red-team, or Responsible AI work in government, BFSI, healthcare, or another regulated sector is a strong plus.

- Prior experience advising or upskilling non-specialist engineering, security, or compliance teams on AI-specific security concerns is desirable.