Overview

The AI Security & Risk Specialist is the person who helps an organisation answer, with evidence, whether a model is safe enough to ship. They work on the fault lines between legal, compliance, security, and engineering — translating regulation into tests and tests into decisions the whole organisation can stand behind.

Radical specialists have been through APAC, which means the communication skills needed to carry hard conversations across technical and non-technical audiences are already on the record before you meet them. They can run an adversarial eval and brief the board on the same afternoon.

Best fits are organisations preparing for EU AI Act obligations with a concrete deadline. Companies that have shipped AI features and now need to know what risk they have taken on. Legal, finance, and healthcare teams where the cost of a model failure is regulatory, reputational, or financial.

01·What this role does

What this role does

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Designs and runs red-team, bias, and privacy evaluations on AI systems
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Translates EU AI Act obligations into concrete engineering and governance work
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Builds audit trails and documentation that hold up to external scrutiny
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Advises product and engineering on acceptable use, guardrails, and fallback behaviour
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Partners with legal and compliance without losing the engineering register

02·Skills & experience

Skills and experience we look for

Hands-on experience with AI red-teaming, adversarial testing, or model evaluation

Working knowledge of the EU AI Act, GDPR, and sector-specific regulation

Strong technical foundation: enough to read code, pipelines, and architecture diagrams

Experience in regulated environments (finance, healthcare, public sector) is a plus

Clear written communication for mixed technical and non-technical audiences

03·How you engage

Typical engagement types

Permanent

Embedded hire owning AI risk governance across the organisation — building the programme, the documentation, and the culture over the long term.

Interim

Fixed-term engagement to run an audit, prepare for a compliance deadline, or stand up a risk governance programme from scratch.

Secondment

A Radical works embedded in your team under a shared engagement structure, bringing specialist risk and compliance expertise without a permanent headcount commitment.

04·Why Radical

The APAC difference

Every Radical clears the APAC assessment before the shortlist.

APAC is our framework for evaluating the human qualities that make great AI professionals: Adaptability, Personality, Awareness, Connection. You are hiring for judgement, not only for a CV. Read the full method and findings in our research paper.

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