AI Security Research & Red Team Engineer

The Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled AI Security Research & Red team engineer to join our Red Team within the Security Threat Detection Response and Emulation organization. This is a critical role that will be at the forefront of protecting our company and customers from malicious threats. You will be responsible for driving security research exercises and activities that emulate real world attackers and attacks to drive improvements in Cloudflares security posture focusing on AI Agents harnesses and LLMs.

Key Responsibilities:

• AI Security and Vulnerability Research: Stay current with emerging threats and perform deep-dive research to identify AI-specific vulnerabilities and risks in addition to general vulnerabilities across Cloudflares products and services.
• Agentic testing and adoption: As a core function identifying AI-related attack surfaces through rigorous testing of agentic implementations and LLM usage which will help define requirements and implementation guidance while proactively.
• Adversary Simulation: Execution of full-chain red team operations targeting Cloudflares global infrastructure corporate networks and product ecosystems.
• Efficacy Testing: Establish a rigorous framework for testing Security Efficacymeasuring exactly how well our WAF EDR and SIEM detections perform against known TTPs (Tactics Techniques and Procedures).
• Purple Teaming: Foster a highly collaborative relationship with the Blue Team (Detection & Response) to ensure findings are translated into immediate defensive improvements.
• Mentorship & Growth: Be a technical leader providing technical expertise while fostering a culture of curiosity ethical hacking and partnering to improve Cloudflares security posture.
• Executive Reporting: Translate complex technical exploits into risk-based narratives for leadership helping prioritize engineering resources where they matter most.

Partnerships

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 4 years in offensive security application security or other relevant field
• 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.
• Technical Roots: A strong background in manual penetration testing exploit development or cloud security (AWS/GCP/Bare Metal).
• Operational Mindset: Experience using the MITRE ATT&CK framework to map coverage and identify blind spots in defensive telemetry.
• 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.
• Tooling Familiarity: Knowledge of automated breach and attack simulation (BAS) tools as well as custom-built frameworks for payload delivery and C2 infrastructure.

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York based hires: Estimated annual salary of $166000 - $208000.

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs. More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

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