Anthropic
Security Engineer, Offensive Security
$300K–$320K
Remote-Friendly, United States +5 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 8, 2026
- Location
- Remote-Friendly, United States
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
New York City, NY
Washington, DC
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming and offensive security operations. Logistics also states that required years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is offered, but not available for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Conduct offensive security assessments and adversarial simulations across Anthropic’s infrastructure, identify risks, and help develop AI-assisted security testing.
What you'll do
- Conduct red and purple team engagements and penetration tests across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, bare metal, and high-value deployments.
- Contribute to AI-assisted security testing tools and workflows, including work on AI-specific attack scenarios.
- Document and present findings to technical and executive audiences, turning attack narratives into actionable risk insights.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise in at least two of macOS security, Linux Security, Cloud security (GCP/AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines.
- Track record of discovering novel attack vectors and creatively chaining vulnerabilities; experience simulating attacks against well-defended environments.
- Strong engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar, and ability to write clear findings that drive action.
- Collaborative approach, including close work with the blue team.
Nice to have
- Prior work at organizations with state actor threat models; interest in AI safety.
- Experience testing AI/ML systems or agentic workflows, detection engineering and SIEM/EDR platforms, data center security, or hardware-based attacks.
Pay
$300,000 — $320,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
macOS, Linux, GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python
AI focus
Contribute to AI-assisted security testing and work on AI-specific attack scenarios; AI/ML and agentic workflow testing are preferred experience.
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