Senior Offensive Security Engineer - AI Safety & Red Team

Anthropic; Friendly (MD); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation and parental leave

Equity donation matching

Office space access

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a senior security engineer to lead red and purple team engagements across our cloud, endpoints, and on-prem deployments. You will drive attack simulations and help translate risk into actionable security roadmaps.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on offensive security, deep cloud/Kubernetes expertise, and strong Python or Go skills. You will collaborate with blue teams and craft tooling for AI-centric security testing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on red teaming and offensive security experience.
• Deep expertise in at least two of: macOS security, Linux security, Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.
• Track record of discovering novel attack vectors and chaining vulnerabilities creatively.
• Experience conducting adversarial simulations against well-defended environments.
• Strong engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar).
• Ability to write clear findings that drive action and prioritize fixes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct red and purple team engagements across our cloud infrastructure, endpoints and bare metal deployments.
• Penetration test specific, high value deployments.
• Contribute to AI-assisted security testing tooling and workflows.
• Work cross functionally with other security and engineering teams, particularly on AI-specific attack scenarios.
• Document and present findings to technical and executive audiences, translating attack narratives into actionable risk insights that inform security roadmaps.

Skills

Red teaming

Offensive security

Python

Go

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a senior security engineer to lead red and purple team engagements across our cloud, endpoints, and on-prem deployments. You will drive attack simulations and help translate risk into actionable security roadmaps.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on offensive security, deep cloud/Kubernetes expertise, and strong Python or Go skills. You will collaborate with blue teams and craft tooling for AI-centric security testing.