Senior Security Researcher - Red Team
Redmond, WAJobPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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The Senior Security Researcher designs and executes end-to-end attacks against agentic systems and AI-enabled security products. The role builds attack suites and test environments, develops threat models and reproducible evidence, and partners with engineering, research, and product security teams to remediate weaknesses. It also turns confirmed findings into regression evaluations and safer designs, communicates residual risk, and tracks emerging agent attack techniques.
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Design and execute end-to-end attacks against agentic systems, AI-enabled security products, orchestration frameworks, tools, plugins, connectors, identities, permissions and isolation boundaries. Investigate indirect prompt injection, unsafe tool use, scope violations, privilege escalation, confused-deputy behavior, secret exposure, sandbox escape, cross-agent manipulation and tampering with human oversight. Build realistic attack chains using attacker-controlled telemetry, alerts, code, web content and other inputs that agents encounter in production workflows. Develop automated attack suites and high-fidelity test environments that continuously exercise model behavior, harness logic, tools, identity and representative product telemetry together. Create rigorous threat models, attack hypotheses and reproducible evidence; assess exploitability, severity and customer or governance impact. Partner with engineers, model researchers and product security teams to identify root causes and drive findings to verified remediation. Convert confirmed weaknesses into regression evaluations, adversarial scenarios, automated tests, stronger authorization boundaries and safer system designs. Communicate attack paths, findings and residual risk clearly to technical teams, leadership and independent reviewers. Track emerging agent attack techniques and real-world adversary behavior, then evolve MART methods, tooling and investments accordingly. Doctorate in relevant field OR Master's Degree in relevant field AND 3+ years related research experience OR Bachelor's Degree in relevant field AND 4+ years related research experience OR equivalent experience. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Hands-on expertise in offensive security, agent security, cloud or identity security, application security, exploitation or a closely related discipline. Experience designing security investigations that produce reproducible technical evidence and actionable remediation. Programming and engineering ability sufficient to build attack tooling, test harnesses, exploit prototypes and automated security tests. Experience testing large language models, agentic systems, tool use, plugins, connectors, multi-agent orchestration or AI-enabled security products. Experience with indirect prompt injection, cloud identity, authorization, sandboxing, container security, web or application exploitation, or offensive-security operations. Knowledge of secure agent architecture, least-privilege design, isolation boundaries, human-in-the-loop controls and high-fidelity security evaluation. Demonstrated ability to explain complex attack chains, severity and residual risk to engineers, product teams and senior decision-makers. Experience converting security findings into production mitigations, automated regression tests, architectural changes or durable security controls.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,377 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Washington median$159–220K/yr257 salary ranges
- US median$60–70/hr85 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 284 open Security Engineer jobs in Washington and 4,377 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Amazon84 open
- Microsoft Corporation20 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience — less than three in four Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,752 postings).
- Education
- 1,275 of the 4,377 open Security Engineer jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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