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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
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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
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