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Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labonsite$300k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Lead incident response across Anthropic’s full technology stack.
  • Build novel detection tooling leveraging large language models.
  • Shape security capabilities from the ground up with research teams.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

A proactive security practitioner with incident response instincts who thrives leading ambiguous investigations and collaborating across teams to safeguard advanced AI systems.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting experience
  • Solid understanding of cloud environments and operations
  • Experience working with engineering teams in a SaaS environment
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
  • Ability to lead projects with little guidance
  • Experience handling security incidents and investigating anomalies as part of a team
  • Knowledge of EDR, SIEM, SOAR, or related security tools
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Participation in an on-call rotation
remote policy
Expected in office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more
visa sponsorship
We sponsor visas but not for every role and candidate

Lab profile

About Anthropic

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.

What they build

  • Claude
  • Claude API
  • Claude Code

Known for

  • AI safety and alignment
  • Model interpretability research
  • Frontier LLM development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2021
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Backed by Amazon and Google
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