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Anthropic

AI Platform Security Engineer

Anthropic, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Team The Security Engineering team's mission is to safeguard our AI systems and maintain the trust of our users and society at large. Whether we’re developing critical security infrastructure, building secure development practices, or partnering with our research and product teams, we are committed to operating as a world-class security organization and keeping the safety and trust of our users at the forefront of everything we do.

Responsibilities

Build security for large-scale AI clusters, implementing robust cloud security architecture including IAM, network segmentation, and encryption controls.

Design secure-by-design workflows, secure CI/CD pipelines across our services, help build secure cloud infrastructure, with expertise in various cloud environments, Kubernetes security, container orchestration and identity management.

Ship and operate secure, high-reliability services using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices and GitOps workflows.

Apply deep expertise in threat modeling and risk assessment to secure complex cloud environments.

Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring and growth of the Security team.

Qualifications

5-15+ years of software engineering experience implementing and maintaining critical systems at scale.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience.

Strong software engineering skills in Python or at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C/C++).

Experience managing infrastructure at scale with DevOps and cloud automation best practices.

Track record of driving engineering excellence through high standards, constructive code reviews, and mentorship.

Proven ability to lead cross‑functional security initiatives and navigate complex organizational dynamics.

Outstanding communication skills, translating technical concepts effectively across all organizational levels.

Demonstrated success bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems.

Strong systems thinking with ability to identify and mitigate risks in complex environments.

Low ego, high empathy engineer who attracts talent and supports diverse, inclusive teams.

Experience supporting fast‑paced startup engineering teams.

Passionate about AI safety and alignment, keen interest in making AI systems more interpretable and aligned with human values.

Additional Qualifications

Designing and hardening CI/CD pipelines against supply chain attacks through isolated environments, signed attestations, dependency verification, and automated policy enforcement.

Building secure development workflows through hardened remote environments.

Implementing network segmentation and access controls in cloud environments.

Managing infrastructure through automated configuration and policy enforcement.

Hardening containerized applications and enforcing security policies.

Deadline to apply: None – Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Annual Salary: $300,000—$405,000 USD.

Logistics: We require at least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we may not be able to sponsor every role and every candidate. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every qualification listed. We urge you to submit an application if you’re interested.

How We’re Different We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. We work as a single cohesive team on a few large‑scale research efforts and value impact over smaller puzzle work. We are an extremely collaborative group, hosting frequent research discussions to ensure we’re pursuing the highest‑impact work. We value communication skills highly.

Seniority level Mid‑Senior level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Information Technology

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