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Security Engineer, Offensive Security

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Security Engineer, Offensive Security in USA

  • Anthropic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Conduct red and purple team engagements that simulate advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and bare-metal deployments.
  • Perform penetration testing of specific, high-value deployments.
  • Contribute to AI-assisted security testing tools and workflows.
  • Collaborate with security and engineering teams on AI-specific attack scenarios.
  • Document and present findings to technical and executive audiences, translating attack narratives into actionable risk insights.
  • Help inform security roadmaps and collaborate closely with blue teams.

Requirements

  • At least 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, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • A track record of discovering novel attack vectors and creatively chaining vulnerabilities.
  • Experience conducting adversarial simulations against well-defended environments.
  • Strong engineering skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
  • Ability to write clear findings that drive action and help teams understand risk.
  • A collaborative approach to working with blue teams and other security and engineering teams.
  • A bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • Preferred experience includes state-actor threat models, AI/ML or agentic workflow testing, detection engineering, SIEM/EDR platforms, and data center security or hardware-based attacks.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $300,000—$320,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is offered, with reasonable efforts made after an offer and support from an immigration lawyer.
  • Hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

Salary: $300k - $320k/yr

Anthropic

Anthropic builds AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable, with a commitment to ensuring their safety and benefit to users and society. Our work is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and policy experts focused on the development of beneficial AI solutions.

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