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Guardrails Engineer

VDart, Inc.Charlotte, NC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 17 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: Guardrails Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Type: Contract

  • Guardrails Engineer will build and automate guardrail testing, adversarial testing, policy validation, security checks, and evidence generation for AI agents and LLM-powered solutions. This role is responsible for helping ensure safe, compliant, and controlled deployment of Ageantic AI use cases.
  • Key Responsibilities
  • Develop automaated guardrail testing frameworks for LLM-powered applications, agents, tools, and workflows.
  • Perform adversarial testing, prompt injection testing, jailbreak testing, red-team-style testing, and policy control validation.
  • Validate content safety, data protection, security, responsible AI, and model risk controls.
  • Build repeatable evidence packages to support approval gates and governance reviews.
  • Collaborate with Product Owners, risk, security, observability, and engineering teams to define control requirements.
  • Integrate guardrail tests into platform lifecycle, CI/CD, release readiness, and production enablement processes.
  • Document findings, control gaps, remediation recommendations, and readiness evidence.

Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of engineering, security testing, QA automation, risk technology, AI safety, or platform testing experience.
  • 5+ years of strong hands-on Python and test automation experience.
  • 5+ years of Understanding of LLM risks, prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, content safety, data leakage, and Responsible AI controls.
  • 5+ years of Experience creating test harnesses, validation processes, and repeatable evidence artifacts.
  • Ability to work with engineering, security, risk, compliance, and product stakeholders.
  • Required Skills / Knowledge
  • Python, adversarial testing, red-team testing, prompt security, responsible AI, guardrails, security testing, test harnesses, and evidence automation.
  • Understanding of AI governance, model risk, content policy controls, approval gates, and regulated delivery.
  • Ability to automate repeatable quality and safety checks for enterprise AI solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with GenAI security, AI red teaming, model risk controls, or regulated AI delivery.
  • Experience with CI/CD, observability, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and enterprise security frameworks.
  • Banking or financial services experience.
  • Expected Outcomes
  • Automated guardrail and adversarial testing framework.
  • Repeatable governance evidence for AI approval gates.
  • Improved safety, control validation, and release confidence for agents.

Skills

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