4 hours ago
Base Salary
$320k - $485k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own Security Labs projects end to end, including scoping, prototyping, testing against real workloads, handoff, or documented exit.
- Build novel security infrastructure involving isolated clusters, attestation chains, hypervisors, runtimes, and verification tooling.
- Work with research and infrastructure teams to test proposed systems and document limitations.
- Convert experimental findings into technical writeups and costed contingency plans.
- Help select future security bets and influence broader security practices.
Requirements
- Care deeply about the security implications of advanced AI.
- Have deep expertise in at least one area such as firmware or hardware security, applied cryptography, OS/kernel/hypervisor internals, formal methods, reverse engineering, exploit development, or high-assurance systems.
- Have independently built and shipped systems, maintained a relied-upon open-source project, founded a company or research group, or produced influential research.
- Have demonstrated ownership of self-selected problems, cross-domain work, and difficult prototypes or experiments.
- Write clearly and adapt decisions based on evidence while prioritizing defensive security.
- Be a strong programmer with Python plus at least one of Rust, Go, or C/C++, and be able to build real infrastructure.
- Preferred: experience with airgapped or high-side environments, offensive security or vulnerability research, ML infrastructure, accelerator hardware, or rapid-iteration environments.
Benefits
- Annual compensation is listed as $320,000—$485,000 USD.
- Visa sponsorship is offered, with reasonable-effort and role/candidate limitations, supported by an immigration lawyer.
- Hybrid policy requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time.
- Benefits include competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
About Anthropic
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.