# Security Engineer, Offensive Security

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $300k – $320k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Red Teaming, Penetration Testing, Purple Teaming, Cloud Security, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python, Go, Macos Security, Linux Security, Ai/Ml Security, Siem/Edr
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Conduct offensive security operations, red-team engagements, penetration testing, and adversarial simulations across cloud, endpoint, and bare-metal environments. The role requires at least five years of experience, strong engineering skills, and expertise across multiple security domains.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Conduct red-team and purple-team engagements simulating advanced threat actors across cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and bare-metal deployments.
- Penetration test high-value deployments.
- Contribute to AI-assisted security-testing tools and workflows.
- Collaborate cross-functionally 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 for security roadmaps.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in red teaming and offensive security operations.
- Deep expertise in at least two of the following: macOS security, Linux security, cloud security (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated ability to discover novel attack vectors and creatively chain vulnerabilities.
- Experience conducting adversarial simulations against well-defended environments.
- Strong engineering skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Ability to write clear findings that drive action and help teams understand risk and prioritize fixes.
- Collaborative approach, including close partnership with blue teams.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience working at organizations with state-actor threat models.
- Interest in AI safety and security engineering's role in responsible AI development.
- Experience testing AI/ML systems or agentic workflows.
- Familiarity with detection engineering and SIEM/EDR platforms.
- Experience with data center security or hardware-based attacks.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: **$300,000–$320,000 USD**.

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