Staff Security Engineer, Risk Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$405k
At a glance
Highlights
- Rebuild risk management as an AI-native engineering function for frontier AI.
- Own Anthropic's most complex security risks end-to-end to remediation.
- Build AI-native tooling using Claude to classify risks and sense change.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
Calibrated security engineering leader who owns ambiguous risks end-to-end with low ego and high empathy, driven to rebuild risk management for safe frontier AI.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Strong programming skills in Python or Go, Rust, or C/C++
- Broad security engineering knowledge with depth in at least one domain
- Calibrated risk judgment on severity and likelihood
- Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives
- Outstanding communication across all organizational levels
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas 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