Offensive Security Engineer, AI

OpenKrill; United States; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Coinbase is seeking an Offensive Security Engineer to join the Application Security team. You will develop AI-driven security tooling, scale vulnerability discovery with frontier models, and collaborate across Vulnerability Management, Offensive Security, and Incident Response to shift how we operate.

You will own AI-augmented testing and contribute to building production-grade security tooling while mentoring teammates to expand the team's capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in application security, penetration testing, or offensive security.
• Hands-on use of LLMs/frontier models to automate tasks and build scanners.
• Red teaming AI-based systems including prompt injection and tool abuse.
• Strong understanding of OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25 vulnerabilities.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar for production-grade tooling.
• Use of generative AI with human oversight for reliable outputs.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered security scanners at scale.
• Lead red teaming against internal AI systems and assess jailbreak risks.
• Develop AI-driven vulnerability triage, validation, and remediation workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering to verify fixes for critical vulnerabilities.
• Mentor junior security engineers on integrating AI into offensive security.

Skills

Experience in application security

LLMs frontier models

Red teaming AI systems

OWASP/SANS knowledge

Python/Go tooling

Responsible AI usage

Job description

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for 'good enough,' you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called surges. learn more about working at Coinbase.

As an Offensive Security Engineer on the Application Security team within Security, you'll pioneer how Coinbase uses frontier AI models to scale vulnerability discovery, red team AI systems, and automate security workflows. This role bridges traditional penetration testing with next-generation AI-augmented offensive security, directly accelerating our ability to protect products and customers. You'll own the development of AI-driven security tooling and collaborate across Vulnerability Management, Offensive Security, and Incident Response to fundamentally shift how we operate.

What you'll do:

• - Build, deploy, and maintain custom security scanners that leverage frontier models to detect vulnerabilities at scale across Coinbase's product surface.
• - Lead red teaming efforts against internal AI systems, including jailbreak testing, prompt injection analysis, and tool abuse simulation.
• - Develop AI-driven automation for vulnerability triage, validation, and remediation workflows to accelerate the bug bounty and vulnerability response pipelines.
• - Partner with engineering teams to prioritize, remediate, and verify fixes for critical vulnerabilities discovered through AI-augmented and manual testing.
• - Mentor junior security engineers on integrating AI into offensive security workflows to scale team capabilities.

Required Skills and Experience:

• - 3+ years of experience in application security, penetration testing, or offensive security with demonstrated ability to build custom security tooling.
• - Hands-on experience using LLMs or frontier models to automate security tasks, scale vulnerability research, or build security scanners.
• - Demonstrated experience red teaming AI-based systems (prompt injection, jailbreak testing, tool abuse).
• - Deep understanding of common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25) and proven track record identifying and exploiting them in production environments.
• - Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or similar) with experience writing production-grade security tooling.
• - Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: The target annual base salary for this position can range as detailed below. Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility and benefits (including medical, dental, and vision).

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):$154,000-$154,000 CAD

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