Red Team Engineer, Safeguards

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic's Safeguards team is seeking a Red Team Engineer to help ensure the safety of our deployed AI systems and products. In this role, you'll take an adversarial approach to uncover vulnerabilities across our product ecosystem before they can be exploited by malicious actors. Your work will span from technical infrastructure vulnerabilities on our products to emergent risks from advanced AI capabilities.</p> <p>While you'll bring best practices from traditional security approaches, the focus is on broader safety implications and novel abuse unique to advanced AI systems and associated products. You'll investigate the full spectrum of potential abuse — from coordinated account manipulation and payment fraud to novel exploitation of product features — and simulate sophisticated threat actors who chain multiple attack vectors to achieve their objectives.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Conduct comprehensive adversarial testing across Anthropic's product surfaces, developing creative attack scenarios that combine multiple exploitation techniques</li> <li>Research and implement novel testing approaches for emerging capabilities, including agent systems, tool use, and new interaction paradigms</li> <li>Design and execute "full kill chain" attacks that emulate real-world threat actors attempting to achieve specific malicious objectives</li> <li>Build and maintain systematic testing methodologies that evaluate every aspect of our systems</li> <li>Develop automated testing frameworks to enable continuous