AI Safety Red Team Engineer

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic’s Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. You will take an adversarial approach to uncover vulnerabilities across our product ecosystem before they can be exploited by malicious actors.

You’ll simulate threat actors who chain multiple attack vectors to achieve objectives, spanning product features, accounts, payments, and novel exploit paths.

Qualifications

• Experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or application security.
• Experience in model jailbreaking and testing large-scale agentic workflows for non-obvious prompt injection vectors.
• Strong technical skills in web application security, including hands-on expertise with security testing tools (e.g., Burp Suite, Metasploit, custom scripting frameworks).
• Experience building custom automation, including LLM-specific testing frameworks.
• A track record of discovering novel attack vectors and chaining vulnerabilities in creative ways.
• A public body of work such as CVEs, blog posts, or disclosed bug bounty reports.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive adversarial testing across Anthropic's product surfaces, developing creative attack scenarios that combine multiple exploitation techniques
• Research and implement novel testing approaches for emerging capabilities, including agent systems, tool use, and new interaction paradigms
• Design and execute "full kill chain" attacks that emulate real‑world threat actors attempting to achieve specific malicious objectives
• Build and maintain systematic testing methodologies that evaluate every aspect of our systems
• Develop automated testing frameworks to enable continuous assessment at scale
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Policy teams to translate findings into concrete improvements
• Help establish metrics for measuring detection effectiveness of novel abuse

Skills

Penetration testing

Red teaming

Web security

Burp Suite

Metasploit

LLM testing

Automation

Agentic workflows

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Custom scripting frameworks

Job description

Anthropic’s Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. You will take an adversarial approach to uncover vulnerabilities across our product ecosystem before they can be exploited by malicious actors.

You’ll simulate threat actors who chain multiple attack vectors to achieve objectives, spanning product features, accounts, payments, and novel exploit paths.