Design an ongoing AI red-team program: team, harm categories, cadence, and what you'd automate with PyRIT first.
The grown-up version of 'how would you red-team a chatbot', Microsoft-style loops ask for a program, not a pen test. Team composition, harm taxonomy, iteration cadence, and which attack classes you script on day one.
Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.
The grown-up version of 'how would you red-team a chatbot', Microsoft-style loops ask for a program, not a pen test. Team composition, harm taxonomy, iteration cadence, and which attack classes you script on day one.
Lead with where the obvious approach breaks, because that is the judgment they are screening for — most candidates jump straight to the happy path and lose the room.
Then walk the failure back through the pipeline in order, naming the one metric the customer's exec sponsor actually cares about before you propose the fix.