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GenAI Senior Security Engineer, Red Team

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Compensation
$174–252K/yr
Location
Seattle, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The GenAI Senior Security Engineer will lead offensive cyber misuse red teaming across Google’s frontier generative AI products. The role designs and executes adversarial evaluations of models, product surfaces, and autonomous agents, then analyzes results and translates findings into risk insights for stakeholders. It also provides technical guidance and quality oversight to external red-teaming vendors and extended workforce teams.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Security AssessmentsSecurity Design ReviewsThreat ModelingSecurity EngineeringComputer SecurityNetwork SecuritySecurity ProtocolsCodingOffensive SecurityRed Team OperationsExploit AnalysisMalware AnalysisVulnerability ResearchBug Bounty ProgramsGenerative AI EvaluationLLM Agent EvaluationAI/ML Systems EvaluationPrompt InjectionJailbreakingSandbox EscapesAI Safety PrinciplesPythonSecurity Assessment AutomationTesting Harness DevelopmentExploit Proof-of-Concept DevelopmentThreat IntelligenceAnti-Abuse EngineeringCyber Kill-Chain Analysis

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience5 Years Security Assessment Experience5 Years Security Engineering Experience5 Years Coding Experience1 Year Technical Leadership Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

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XIn accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance

  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match

  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment

  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance

  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks

  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks

  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Washington D.C., DC, USA .

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 5 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.

  • 5 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.

  • 5 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

  • 1 year of experience leading teams in a technical capacity or leading technical risk analysis in an enterprise environment.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with offensive security and red team operations—including exploit/malware analysis, vulnerability research, or bug bounty programs (VRPs)—and experience evaluating or stress-testing Generative AI models, LLM agents, or AI/ML systems (e.g., prompt injection, jailbreaking techniques, sandbox escapes, and AI safety principles).

  • Experience writing Python code in production or testing environments to automate security assessments, develop testing harnesses, or build exploit proof-of-concepts.

  • Background in threat intelligence, anti-abuse engineering, or cyber kill-chain analysis—analyzing emerging threat landscapes and developing proactive strategies to mitigate evolving cyber misuse risks.

About the job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

As a Generative AI Senior Security Engineer on the Content Adversarial Red Team (CART) who is part of a broader cross-team collaborative effort focused on frontier safety, you will lead offensive cyber misuse red teaming across Google's Frontier Generative AI products. You will design and execute sophisticated adversarial evaluations covering multi-stage cyber kill chains, exploit and malware generation, security control bypasses, and indirect prompt injection (IPI). Partnering closely with cross-function stakeholders and within Responsible AI (RAI) Testing teams, you will translate test results into reports and findings that protect users and potential targets of cyber misuse attacks.

Note: This role will review graphic, controversial, and offensive content in line with Google’s user policies. This role may also require occasional extended hours, including night or weekend work.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $174000 - $252000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .

Responsibilities

  • Lead red-teaming exercises across Generative AI models, product surfaces, and autonomous agents to uncover novel cyber misuse capabilities, jailbreaks, and emerging security risks, conducting some volume of red teaming for Frontier Safety risks or content safety as needed.

  • Design and execute adversarial cyber testing strategies—including evaluating exploit and malware development uplift, vulnerability discovery, phishing/data exfiltration enablement, and multi-stage cyber kill chains.

  • Employ technical cyber grading rubrics/safety and security/safety policies to determine effectiveness of attacks and validate testing strategies. Provide technical guidance, baseline grading, and quality oversight for specialized external red-teaming vendors and extended workforce teams.

  • Analyze, reproduce, and validate testing results, assessing real-world exploitability and capability uplift severity.

  • Synthesize technical findings into risk insights and data-driven narratives for cross-functional stakeholders.

Information collected and processed as part of your Google Careers profile, and any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Google'sApplicant and Candidate Privacy Policy (./privacy-policy) .

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents-to-be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See alsoGoogle's EEO Policy (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/) ,Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal (https://careers.google.com/jobs/dist/legal/EEOC\_KnowYourRights\_10\_20.pdf) ,Belonging at Google (https://about.google/belonging/) , andHow we hire (https://careers.google.com/how-we-hire/) .

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Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,151 open Security Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$174–252K/yr
  • Washington median$159–217K/yr239 salary ranges
  • US median$132–208K/yr3,383 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $213K, is 16% above the Washington median midpoint ($184K) — in the top quarter of Security Engineer salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 271 open Security Engineer jobs in Washington and 4,151 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Security Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,594 postings).
Education
1,543 of the 4,151 open Security Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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