Staff Red Team Engineer
Anthropic
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $300,000 - $405,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
- Help establish metrics for measuring detection effectiveness of novel abuse
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or application security
- Strong technical skills in web application security, including hands-on expertise with security testing tools (Burp Suite, Metasploit, custom scripting frameworks, etc.)
- A track record of discovering novel attack vectors and chaining vulnerabilities in creative ways
- A public body of work such as CVEs, blog posts, or disclosed bug bounty reports
- Experience with security testing tools and the ability to build custom automation
- Adaptability to understand and build engagements around emerging threats outside of your direct area of expertise
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences
- Proven ability to think like an attacker.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Optional equity donation matching
- Lovely office space for collaboration
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
penetration testingred teamingapplication securityweb application securitysecurity testingattack vectorsvulnerability chainingautomated testing frameworkscustom scriptingmetrics for detection effectiveness
Soft Skills
adaptabilitywritten communicationverbal communicationexplanation of technical conceptscreative thinking