5 months ago
Base Salary
$405k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex security risk problems from assessment through escalation, treatment decisions, and remediation with minimal oversight.
- Build quantification tooling, automated intake and triage, observability, dashboards, and data pipelines for security risk management.
- Partner with Security Engineering to pressure-test architectures, prioritize remediation roadmaps, and support investment decisions.
- Conduct threat modeling and structured assessments, calibrate severity and likelihood, and communicate defensible recommendations to leadership.
- Design AI-native risk tooling using Claude to classify risks, augment triage, and detect changes in the risk landscape.
- Mentor engineers and risk practitioners and help establish a culture of distributed security-risk ownership.
- Measure outcomes based on decisions made and risk reduced rather than activity completed.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience, including independently leading and remediating complex security risks.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Strong programming skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.
- Broad knowledge across security domains including identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain, infrastructure and cloud security, and secure frameworks, with depth in at least one.
- Calibrated risk judgment and the ability to assess ambiguous problems, defend recommendations, and update positions as evidence changes.
- Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives and navigating complex organizational dynamics.
- Outstanding communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts across organizational levels.
- Track record of bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems and driving them to resolution.
- Experience growing engineers and supporting diverse, inclusive teams.
- Passion for AI safety and trustworthy AI systems.
- Preferred: ownership of security risks through remediation, executive risk briefings, security automation or risk platforms, LLM- or agent-powered security tooling, security/detection/offensive security experience, quantified risk programs, and familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP.
Benefits
- Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from 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.
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.