Security Engineer, Offensive Security (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $300,000–$320,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Conduct red and purple team engagements that simulate advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and bare metal deployments.
• Penetration test 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.

Requirements

• 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 across GCP/AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience discovering novel attack vectors, creatively chaining vulnerabilities, and 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 prioritize fixes, with a collaborative approach to working with blue teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience with organizations operating under state-actor threat models.
• Background testing AI/ML systems or agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with detection engineering and SIEM/EDR platforms.
• Experience with data center security or hardware-based attacks.
• Interest in AI safety and responsible AI development.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative security and research environment focused on trustworthy AI.
• Competitive compensation with optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment for collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration lawyer support, subject to role and candidate eligibility.