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Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security

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

Frontier labonsite$320k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Secure frontier RL systems behind Claude's reasoning, coding, and autonomy.
  • Build security controls across training, inference, and environment execution.
  • Keep fast-moving RL infrastructure secure without costing performance or velocity.

What they offer

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration

Ideal candidate

A security-minded systems builder or ML infrastructure engineer who thrives in fast-moving research environments and cares about securing frontier AI without slowing progress.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one systems language such as Rust, C++, or Go
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or security systems in production
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals
  • Working knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience debugging complex problems across many hosts and services
  • Ability to reason about tradeoffs between security, performance, and reliability
  • Strong written communication, including design documents
remote policy
Staff expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, some roles may require more
visa sponsorship
We do sponsor visas, but aren't able to successfully sponsor visas 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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