Red Team Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA · Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required)
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Frontier labremote$320k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Adversarially test product surfaces to uncover vulnerabilities before attackers do.
- Design full kill-chain attacks emulating real-world threat actors' objectives.
- Research novel testing approaches for emerging agent systems and tool use.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Ideal candidate
Creative security-minded thinker who loves thinking like an attacker to protect AI systems. You combine curiosity about emerging AI risks with clear communication and collaboration across teams.
Requirements
- Experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or application security
- Experience in model jailbreaking and testing large-scale agentic workflows for prompt injection
- Strong technical skills in web application security including security testing tools
- Experience building custom automation including LLM-specific testing frameworks
- Track record of discovering novel attack vectors and chaining vulnerabilities
- Public body of work such as CVEs, blog posts, or disclosed bug bounty reports
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- remote policy
- Hybrid - expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas but aren't able to successfully sponsor every role and candidate
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google