Staff Red Team Specialist – Safeguards

Staff Red Team Specialist – Safeguards

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
• Experience with security testing tools and the ability to build custom automation
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences
• Proven ability to think like an attacker

Responsibilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/ML security or adversarial machine learning
• 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
• Familiarity with distributed systems and infrastructure security
• Understanding of AI safety considerations beyond traditional security