Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red/Blue Team)

Anthropic; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 300,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Security Engineer to lead red team engagements and strengthen our AI safety posture. You will simulate sophisticated threats across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and production environments, transforming findings into actionable risk insights for leadership.

The role requires hands-on offensive security expertise, strong engineering skills in Python or Go, and collaboration with blue teams to drive secure-by-design practices across Anthropic.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming and offensive security operations.
• Deep expertise in at least two of: macOS security, Linux Security, Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Conduct red and purple team engagements simulating advanced threat actors 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

Cloud security

Kubernetes

Python/Go

Offensive security

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Security Engineer to lead red team engagements and strengthen our AI safety posture. You will simulate sophisticated threats across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and production environments, transforming findings into actionable risk insights for leadership.

The role requires hands-on offensive security expertise, strong engineering skills in Python or Go, and collaboration with blue teams to drive secure-by-design practices across Anthropic.