26 red team engineer jobs at 19 companies in California

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Red Team Engineer, Discovery
Washington or Costa Mesa
$166k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries: Defense technology developing AI-powered autonomous military systems.
4+ YOEActive U.S. Top Secret clearance, hands-on engineering system design and analysis, independent deliverable ownership, physics-math scripting, relevant engineering background, and strong communication skills; 4+ years preferred.
MATLAB, Simulink, Python, numpy, scipy, STK/Astrogator, AFSIM, genetic algorithms, machine learning, AI, reinforcement learning
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Red Team Engineer, Safeguards
San Francisco or United States
$320k-$405k/yr HybridFull Time
Anthropic
Anthropic: AI research developing safe and steerable AI systems.
Experience in penetration testing/red teaming, model jailbreaking, web application security, building custom automation and LLM-specific testing frameworks; strong communication skills and public body of work.
Burp Suite, Metasploit, LLM
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AI Red Team Engineer
London or San Francisco
$182k-$238k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Apollo Research
Apollo Research: AI safety organization evaluating frontier models for AI labs and developing tools to detect and mitigate scheming.
2+ YOERequires 2+ years in offensive security, adversarial ML, or AI red-teaming; extensive AI coding-agent experience; structured adversarial testing; strong Python and written communication skills; and independent problem-solving ability.
Python, MonitoringBench, Watcher, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
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Red Team Operator
Chicago or Massachusetts or Maryland or Wisconsin or Washington or White Plains or Reston or Texas or Georgia or South Carolina or Florida or North Carolina or Delaware or Connecticut or Crum Lynne or Colorado or California or Missouri or Boca Raton
$113k-$188k/yr RemoteFull Time
TransUnion
TransUnionNYSE: TRU: Global information and insights providing credit reporting and risk management.
5+ YOERequires 5+ years conducting penetration tests and red team operations, expertise in privilege escalation, lateral movement, phishing, social engineering, reporting, and Python, Bash, or Git development.
Python, Bash, Git, OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GWAPT, CISSP, HSA, FSA, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
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Senior Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team)
California or Maryland or Virginia or Herndon
$149k-$224k/yr RemoteFull Time
Salesforce
SalesforceNYSE: CRM: The #1 AI CRM driving customer success together.
Deep hands-on offensive security/red team experience executing complex engagements, manual exploitation and attack chaining, identity and cloud abuse, custom scripting/tooling, and strong communication with engineering and response teams.
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Senior Privacy Engineer (RED team) - TikTok PDPO
San Jose, California, United States
$213k-$388k/yr OnsiteFull Time
TikTok
TikTok: Short-form mobile video and social media platform.
Hands-on offensive security/red teaming experience, strong appsec and privacy engineering knowledge, ability to threat-model privacy concepts and lead end-to-end technical assessments, strong communication skills.
MITRE ATT&CK
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Engineering Manager (Red Team)
Anywhere in the world
$170k-$250k/yr RemoteFull Time
FAR.AI
FAR.AI: U.S. nonprofit AI safety research institute advancing technical alignment research and global collaboration.
Strong software engineering, AI, cybersecurity, or computer engineering background; technical team leadership and hiring experience; hands-on coding; experience with AI systems, cloud infrastructure, or MLOps; strong communication and execution skills.
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Python, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, vLLM, Inspect, OpenClaw, GCP, Kubernetes, Slurm
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AIML - Machine Learning Engineer, Red Teaming - Responsible AI and Safety
California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Apple
AppleNASDAQ: AAPL: Designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and digital services.
Experience assessing and improving safety, fairness, robustness, and explainability of large generative models (language and vision); expertise in generative AI and multimodal systems; strong ML research and engineering skills.
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Staff Security Engineer - AI
Sunnyvale, California, United States
$152k-$248k/yr HybridFull Time
LinkedIn: The world's largest professional network.
5+ YOEBA/BS or equivalent experience, 5+ years security engineering experience, hands-on AI/ML security knowledge, threat modeling and red-teaming experience, experience with Java/GoLang/Python, and building security tooling.
Java, GoLang, Python, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen
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Senior Security Engineer
United States or San Francisco or New York City or London or Dublin or Tel Aviv or Sydney
$227k-$267k/yr RemoteFull Time
Vanta
Vanta: Private software that helps businesses automate compliance, manage risk, and prove security trust.
Experience with threat modeling, penetration testing or red teaming, software development and reading code to find security issues, strong communication and project management, and independent ownership of security initiatives.
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Security Engineer
Berkeley, California, United States
$286k-$503k/yr HybridFull Time
METR
METR: Nonprofit AI research organization that evaluates frontier models for capabilities and catastrophic risks.
Deep security fundamentals across systems, networks, cloud, and identity; offensive security/red teaming; AI/LLM engineering; strong AWS (IAM) knowledge.
AWS, EKS, Lambda, ECS, IAM, SQS, CloudWatch, SecurityHub, GuardDuty, PostgreSQL, Aurora, Pulumi, DataDog, Okta, Google Workspace, Tailscale, CrowdStrike Falcon, SIEM, Kubernetes
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Staff AI Security Engineer
Seattle or San Francisco
$208k-$251k/yr HybridFull Time
Spring Health
Spring Health: Private mental health technology providing personalized therapy, coaching, medication, and specialty care to individuals and employers.
10+ YOE10+ years software engineering experience with 5+ years in security; hands-on experience securing AI/ML systems, LLMs, RAG, red teaming, threat modeling, CI/CD and git; strong communication and mentoring skills.
LLMs, RAG, CI/CD, git
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Incident Response Security Engineer
United States or San Francisco or New York City
$169k-$225k/yr RemoteFull Time
ClickHouse
ClickHouse: Provider of a high-performance, real-time analytics database management system.
Security practitioner with incident detection and response, product security or red teaming, cloud infrastructure security, automation, and development experience; knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure required.
AWS, GCP, Azure, Golang, Python
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AI Security Engineer (GRC)
Long Beach, California, United States
$125k-$216k/yr HybridFull Time
SCAN Group
SCAN Group: Nonprofit healthcare organization providing Medicare Advantage coverage and care services for older adults.
7+ YOE7+ years information security experience (2+ years in AI security), Bachelor's in related field required (Master's preferred). Hands-on experience with AI platforms and vendor risk assessment; knowledge of HIPAA, NIST AI RMF, HITRUST, threat modeling, and AI red-teaming.
Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Snowflake Cortex, Claude Code, Anthropic APIs, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenAI API, LangChain, AutoGen, Semantic Kernel, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude Code CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Microsoft Azure Developer CLI, Microsoft Copilot Enterprise, Microsoft Power Platform, Snowpark, Hugging Face, Azure Model Catalog, Garak, PyRIT, PromptBench, MITRE ATLAS, MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM, SOAR, OAuth 2.0, mTLS, OIDC, SAML, HITRUST CSF, NIST AI RMF, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, STRIDE, PASTA, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
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Member of Technical Staff (Security, Engineering, Research)
San Francisco, California, United States
$200k-$350k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Security Level 5
Security Level 5: Nonprofit developing AI security standards for frontier labs against nation-state threats.
5+ YOE5+ years in infrastructure security, security research, threat intel, or red‑teaming (or 2+ years building/stress-testing AI training infrastructure); experience shipping or compromising production systems; strong technical and communication skills.
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Senior Staff Security Researcher
Sunnyvale or California
HybridFull Time
Reach Security
Reach Security: AI-native cybersecurity helping organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate security-control gaps across their existing tools.
10+ YOE10+ years in information security or engineering and 5+ years in offensive security, research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research; requires attack analysis, software engineering, tooling, and technical communication skills.
FSA, HSA
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Tech Lead, Offensive Security
Los Angeles, California, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Hadrian
Hadrian: Manufactures precision components in automated factories.
Requires deep red-team and penetration-testing experience, reverse engineering, Python, Go, or C/C++ proficiency, autonomous leadership, and U.S. person eligibility under ITAR.
Ghidra, IDA Pro, Binary Ninja, Python, Go, C, C++, JTAG, UART, AI
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Researcher, Frontier Cybersecurity Risks
San Francisco, California, United States
$295k-$445k/yr OnsiteFull Time
OpenAI
OpenAI: AI research and deployment focused on beneficial AGI.
Experience in deep learning and transformer models, proficiency with PyTorch or TensorFlow, strong software engineering, data structures and algorithms, designing and deploying misuse safeguards, and testing/red-teaming mitigation stacks.
PyTorch, TensorFlow
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Server Systems Engineering Lead
San Diego, California, United States
$87k-$198k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
10+ YOE3+ Mgmt10+ years architecting and securing enterprise IT services, 3+ years leading technical teams, Secret clearance, high school diploma/GED, CompTIA Security+, and Microsoft, Red Hat, or Cisco certification.
Windows Server, Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), Group Policy, Microsoft Entra ID, MCM, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), VMware, Windows PowerShell, Azure Stack HCI, VxRail, PKI, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Cisco ISE, Forescout, Splunk, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, 802.1X, NAC, SIEM
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Server Systems Engineering Lead
San Diego, California, United States
$87k-$198k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
10+ YOE3+ Mgmt10+ years architecting and securing enterprise IT services, 3+ years leading technical teams, Secret clearance, high school diploma/GED, and CompTIA Security+ plus Microsoft, Red Hat, or Cisco certification.
Windows Server, Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft Entra ID, MCM, SCCM, VMware, Windows PowerShell, Azure Stack HCI, VxRail, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Cisco ISE, Forescout, Splunk, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, 802.1X, NAC, SIEM, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, PKI