AI Security Engineer: Offensive & Blue‑Team

METR; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 285,548 - 503,116; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered meals

Relocation stipend

Unlimited PTO

Commuter stipend

PD & conferences

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Home office equipment

Job summary

METR is seeking a security-focused engineer to join its new security team in Berkeley. You will lead offensive security, build AI-driven red teaming, and harden our frontier AI evaluation platform.

Responsibilities include blue-team engineering, incident response, and securing an unusual attack surface where model-based evaluations run. The role blends research collaboration with practical defense across cloud, endpoints, and identities, with a hybrid in-office schedule.

Qualifications

• Deep security fundamentals across systems, networks, cloud and identity.

Responsibilities

• Offensive security: run red-team exercises, build automated AI red teams.

Skills

Deep security

Offensive security

AI/LLM engineering

AWS IAM

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Pulumi

DataDog

Okta

Google Workspace

Tailscale

CrowdStrike Falcon

Job description

METR is seeking a security-focused engineer to join its new security team in Berkeley. You will lead offensive security, build AI-driven red teaming, and harden our frontier AI evaluation platform.

Responsibilities include blue-team engineering, incident response, and securing an unusual attack surface where model-based evaluations run. The role blends research collaboration with practical defense across cloud, endpoints, and identities, with a hybrid in-office schedule.