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
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