# Red Team Engineer, Safeguards

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$405,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of deployed AI systems and products.

In this role, you'll take an adversarial approach to uncover vulnerabilities across the product ecosystem before they can be exploited by malicious actors.

Key responsibilities:

- 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

- Design and execute 'full kill chain' attacks that emulate real-world threat actors

- Build and maintain systematic testing methodologies

- Develop automated testing frameworks

- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Policy teams to translate findings into concrete improvements

- Help establish metrics for measuring detection effectiveness of novel abuse

Minimum qualifications:

- Experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or application security

- Experience in model jailbreaking and testing large-scale agentic workflows

- Strong technical skills in web application security

- Experience building custom automation

- A track record of discovering novel attack vectors

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with AI/ML security or adversarial machine learning

- Understanding of AI safety considerations

- Experience testing API security and rate-limiting systems

- Background in testing business logic vulnerabilities

- Familiarity with distributed systems and infrastructure security

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$405,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- penetration testing
- red teaming
- application security
- model jailbreaking
- web application security
- custom automation
- novel attack vectors

### Nice to have
- AI/ML security
- adversarial machine learning
- API security
- rate-limiting systems
- business logic vulnerabilities
- distributed systems
- infrastructure security

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