MP
$320,000 – $405,000
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What this role is
This role leads Anthropic's security risk engineering function, building AI-native systems to identify, quantify, and remediate the company's most critical security risks. It suits experienced security engineers who can operate independently across diverse domains, mentor others, and help establish new risk management practices for an AI-first company.
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What they ask for
Required
- 8+ years of software or security engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent
- Programming proficiency in Python or a systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++)
- Broad knowledge across identity and secrets management, developer security, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks
- Ability to assess and assign defensible severity and likelihood to ambiguous security problems
- Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives
- Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences
- Track record of clarifying and resolving ambiguous technical problems
Nice to have
- Owned and driven a named security risk through full remediation cycle
- Briefed executives and defended risk decisions under challenge
- Built security automation or risk platforms adopted across an organization
- Shipped LLM or agent-powered security or risk tooling
- Security engineering, detection engineering, or offensive security background
- Built or operated a quantified risk program that influenced resource decisions
- Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance frameworks