Anthropic

Staff+ Application Security Engineer

Anthropic
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2 months ago
Remote, United States +3 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$320k - $485k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, operate, and own Claude-powered security systems for code analysis, vulnerability remediation, and AI-assisted threat modeling.
  • Lead secure design reviews and threat modeling for novel AI systems and identify risks across agentic architectures.
  • Evolve the public bug bounty program, including automated triage, root-cause analysis, escalations, and corner cases.
  • Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Research teams as an embedded security owner on launches and architecture decisions.
  • Participate in an operational rotation covering bounty escalations, incident response, and production launch consultations.

Requirements

  • Hands-on application and infrastructure security experience in cloud and containerized environments.
  • Production-quality coding ability in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, with experience building durable systems.
  • Practical threat-modeling and vulnerability-identification experience with real-world systems.
  • Ability to work autonomously and navigate ambiguous problems with limited specification.
  • Strong technical communication skills with engineers and leadership.
  • Preferred: 7+ years of application security, security engineering, or security-focused software engineering experience.
  • Preferred: experience using LLMs as a core work tool and securing agentic, code-execution, or LLM-integrated systems.
  • Preferred: ownership of a bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, or vulnerability-management program at scale.
  • Preferred: experience building security automation or developer-facing security tooling.
  • Preferred: offensive security or penetration testing experience.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $320,000—$485,000 USD.
  • Hybrid work policy requiring staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support.
  • Competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.

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About Anthropic

5,001-10,000 employees

Anthropic builds large language models and the Claude AI assistant for developers and enterprises, offered via API access and enterprise plans. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, it distributes Claude through its own platform and via partners such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. Its work emphasizes model reliability, interpretability, and practical tooling for tasks like coding assistance, analysis, and customer support automation.

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