Coinbase

Offensive Security Engineer, AI

Coinbase
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5 hours ago
Remote, CanadaMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered security scanners for large-scale vulnerability discovery.
  • Lead red-team testing of internal AI systems, including jailbreak, prompt-injection, and tool-abuse simulations.
  • Create AI-driven automation for vulnerability triage, validation, remediation, bug bounty, and vulnerability-response workflows.
  • Partner with engineering teams to prioritize vulnerabilities, remediate issues, and verify fixes.
  • Mentor junior security engineers on integrating AI into offensive security workflows.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in application security, penetration testing, or offensive security, including building custom security tooling.
  • Hands-on experience using LLMs or frontier models to automate security tasks, scale vulnerability research, or build security scanners.
  • Demonstrated experience red-teaming AI systems through prompt-injection, jailbreak, and tool-abuse testing.
  • Deep knowledge of common vulnerability classes, including OWASP Top 10 and SANS Top 25, with experience identifying and exploiting them in production.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language, such as Python or Go, and experience writing production-grade security tooling.
  • Ability to use generative AI responsibly with human oversight and improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work arrangement with quarterly in-person working sessions called surges.
  • Medical, dental, and vision benefits, with potential equity and bonus eligibility.
Coinbase

About Coinbase

5,001-10,000 employees

Coinbase builds a cryptocurrency platform for consumers, institutions, and developers to buy, sell, store, and use digital assets. Its products include the Coinbase app/exchange, Coinbase Prime for institutions, custody services, and developer APIs, and it earns primarily from transaction fees and subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and now remote-first, Coinbase is a public company (NASDAQ: COIN) serving major crypto markets in the U.S. and abroad.

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