Anthropic

Red Team Engineer, Safeguards

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

H1B sponsorship available$320k-$405kDetected 7 days ago

Distributed SystemsMachine LearningNLPLLMsCybersecurityPenetration TestingLogisticsTest AutomationResearchCommunicationAdaptabilityBurp Suite

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.

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
Experience building custom automation, including LLM-specific testing frameworks

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)
A track record of discovering novel attack vectors and chaining vulnerabilities in creative ways
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
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

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

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

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.
We do sponsor visas!

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