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# AI Security Research & Red team engineer

- **Company:** CloudFlare
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $166,000.0 - $208,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, Cloud Computing Security, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Red Team (Cyber Security), Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Software Security, Mitre Att&ck, AI Coding Agents, Agentic-AI, Bare Metal, Cloudflare, Vulnerability Analysis
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.military.com/career/368981/ai-security-research-red-team-engineer-california-ca-san-francisco

## About the Role

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 * Experience: 4+ years in offensive security, application security or other relevant field\n
 * Deep knowledge: AI, Coding agents, LLMs, prompt engineering, AI-related attack vectors (e.g., prompt injection, jailbreaking), and Agentic concepts all for use in the red team but also testing Cloudflare uses.\n
 * Technical Roots: A strong background in manual penetration testing, exploit development, or cloud security (AWS/GCP/Bare Metal).\n
 * Operational Mindset: Experience using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map coverage and identify "blind spots" in defensive telemetry.\n
 * Communication Skills: The ability to explain a complex "0-day" exploit to a non-technical stakeholder while maintaining the respect of a deep-dive engineering team.\n
 * Tooling Familiarity: Knowledge of automated breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools, as well as custom-built frameworks for payload delivery and C2 infrastructure.\n

## Description

* Security Incident Response Team (SIRT): You will act as the "sparring partner" for SIRT. By conducting unannounced exercises, you help them refine their playbooks, test their on-call rotations, and ensure their forensic tooling is effective under pressure.\n
 * Threat Detection & Threat Engineering: You will partner closely with these teams to bridge the gap between adversary simulation and defensive coverage. You will proactively identify detection gaps, lead the development of new detection logic, and establish rigorous validation frameworks to test and tune detections against emerging TTPs.\n
 * Product Engineering/SRE: We operate as "Customer Zero" of our own products, your red teaming findings will drive resilience in processes and implementations, ultimately making Cloudflare and its customers more secure.\n
 * Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC): You will bridge the gap between "paper security" and "technical reality." By providing empirical evidence of control effectiveness, you help GRC move away from manual audits and toward continuous, automated compliance validation.\n