Senior Engineer, Offensive Security

Humana

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
United States
Salary
$117,600–$161,700 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 14, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays less than 83% of similar roles. Most pay $151,256–$216,000 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $140k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Humana

Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.

Humana currently has 46 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 25 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Engineer, Offensive Security

JOB TITLE: Senior Engineer, Offensive Security As a Senior Engineer, Offensive Security, you will join the AI & Offensive Tooling capability within the Offensive Security organization. You will build and operate agentic offensive tooling, writing production-quality Python software and AI agents featuring LLM-driven planning loops and multi-agent orchestration. Your daily responsibilities include developing tool and function-calling capabilities, running penetration tests across network, web-application, cloud, and infrastructure environments, and conducting purple-team exercises to validate security countermeasures. You will also perform adversarial assessments on internal AI systems, including RAG pipelines and ML applications, to identify prompt injections and model extraction. You must possess skills in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, alongside experience with red-team tradecraft, C2 frameworks, and AI security frameworks like PyRIT or Garak.

What does a Engineer earn?

Median $185000 from 253 postings across 59 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Write production-quality software and AI agents featuring LLM-driven planning loops and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Develop tool and function-calling capabilities to power the in-house agent platform for offensive operations.
  • Execute network, web-application, cloud, and infrastructure penetration tests using custom-built tooling.
  • Conduct purple-team exercises to validate security countermeasures and work with detection engineering to close security gaps.
  • Perform objective-driven red-team operations and adversary emulation against internal LLM-powered products and ML applications.
  • Test internal AI systems for prompt injection, jailbreaks, model extraction, and data poisoning.
  • Establish evaluation approaches to track the autonomous success of offensive tools against representative targets.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in Red Team, Penetration Testing, Purple Team, or Bug Bounty roles.
  • Proven track record of delivering end-to-end engagements including scoping, execution, and written findings.
  • Production Python engineering experience to build and operate real tooling rather than one-off scripts.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, or operating AI agents, LLM applications, and agentic workflows.
  • Experience attacking AI/ML systems using prompt injection, jailbreaking, and other adversarial techniques.
  • Production experience with at least one major Cloud Service Provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Built autonomous or semi-autonomous offensive agents or LLM-driven penetration-testing agents (preferred).
  • Red-team tradecraft, purple-team fluency, and AI red-teaming framework experience (preferred).

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