Cloudflare

AI Security Research & Red Team Engineer

Who can apply: Only open to applicants in: New York, Texas.
Location as listed by the employer: “Hybrid; Austin, TX; New York, NY”
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About this role

Cloudflare is hiring for a AI Security Research & Red Team Engineer role. See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 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.

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