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Red Team Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open
80 days
Anthropic's roles stay open a median of 76 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Anthropic's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Anthropic
high
587 stale, 19 reposted of 603 open
Hiring momentum
795 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-22

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anthropic's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anthropic.

About this role

As a Red Team Engineer at Anthropic, you will be responsible for ensuring the safety of AI systems by identifying vulnerabilities through adversarial testing. Your role will involve simulating sophisticated threat actors, developing attack scenarios, and collaborating with various teams to enhance product security. You'll also be tasked with creating automated testing frameworks and establishing metrics for detection effectiveness.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anthropic as an employer.

What you need

  • Experience in penetration testing, red teaming, or application security
  • Experience in model jailbreaking and testing large-scale agentic workflows for non-obvious prompt injection vectors
  • Strong technical skills in web application security, including hands-on expertise with security testing tools (e.g., Burp Suite, Metasploit, custom scripting frameworks)
  • Experience building custom automation, including LLM-specific testing frameworks
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI/ML security or adversarial machine learning
  • Understanding of AI safety considerations beyond traditional security, including modern guardrails against jailbreaks
  • Experience testing API security and rate-limiting systems
  • Background in testing business logic vulnerabilities and authorization bypass techniques
  • Background in anti-fraud, trust & safety, or abuse prevention systems

What you get

  • Annual Salary: $320,000 — $405,000 USD
  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration

Worth weighing

  • No specific mention of the tech stack used in the role
  • Vague details on the internal job level requirements
  • Location-based hybrid policy may require more time in the office for some roles
  • Visa sponsorship is not guaranteed for every candidate

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Listed by Anthropic on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-22. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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