Red Team Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic; United States; Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Red Team Engineer to uncover vulnerabilities in deployed AI systems, applying adversarial testing across product surfaces to simulate real-world threat actors. You will design

Qualifications

• Experience in penetration testing and red teaming.
• Experience in web application security testing.
• Familiarity with security testing tools such as Burp Suite and Metasploit.
• Ability to build custom automation and testing frameworks for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct adversarial testing across products to uncover vulnerabilities.
• Design and execute full kill chain attacks emulating real threats.
• Develop automated testing frameworks for continuous assessment at scale.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Policy teams to translate findings into improvements.

Skills

Penetration testing

Red teaming

Web application security

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Custom scripting frameworks

LLM testing frameworks

Vulnerability disclosure (CVEs)

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Burp Suite

Metasploit

Custom scripting

Job description

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic's Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. In this role, you'll take an adversarial approach to uncover vulnerabilities across our product ecosystem before they can be exploited by malicious actors. Your work will span from technical infrastructure vulnerabilities on our products to emergent risks from advanced AI capabilities.

While you'll bring best practices from traditional security approaches, the focus is on broader safety implications and novel abuse unique to advanced AI systems and associated products. You'll investigate the full spectrum of potential abuse — from coordinated account manipulation and payment fraud to novel exploitation of product features — and simulate sophisticated threat actors who chain multiple attack vectors to achieve their objectives.

Key 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
• 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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML security or adversarial machine learning
• Understanding of AI safety considerations beyond traditional security, including modern guardrails against jailbreaks
• Experience testing API security and rate‑limiting systems
• Background in testing business logic vulnerabilities and authorization bypass techniques
• Background in anti‑fraud, trust & safety, or abuse prevention systems
• Familiarity with distributed systems and infrastructure security
• Familiarity with abuse detection mechanisms and the ability to engineer novel bypasses
• Adaptability to understand and build engagements around emerging threats outside your direct area of expertise

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$320,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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