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Staff+ Application Security Engineer

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labremotestaff$320k–$485k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build LLM-driven security systems that find bugs and open fix PRs automatically.
  • Secure agentic AI surfaces like sandboxed code execution and delegated credentials.
  • Own production security systems end-to-end on a senior builder team.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

Builder-minded security engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves using AI to scale security. You reason at system level and prefer building durable defenses over one-off finds.

Requirements

  • Hands-on application and infrastructure security experience, including cloud and containerized environments
  • Production-quality coding ability in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, with a track record of building durable systems
  • Practical threat-modeling and vulnerability-identification skills in real systems
  • Demonstrated ability to operate with high autonomy and ambiguity
  • Clear technical communication with both engineers and leadership
remote policy
Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship offered where possible, 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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