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Staff Security Engineer, Risk Engineering

AnthropicSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WASecurity
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Job type
Full-time
Posted
8 Jun 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

The Staff Security Engineer for Risk Engineering position at Anthropic is a full-time role based in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, operating under a location-based hybrid work policy. This position suits an experienced security professional ready to build AI-native platforms and redefine risk management for frontier artificial intelligence.

Role Overview

The Security Risk team at Anthropic handles how the company identifies, prioritizes, and drives treatment for essential security risks. This position operates largely as greenfield work, allowing the professional to shape the architecture and discipline of modern risk management. The role involves working closely with CISO-level decisions and building the AI-native platform underneath, addressing areas from identity management to infrastructure security.

Key Responsibilities

Take ownership of complex security risk problems and drive them end to end with minimal oversight.
Build systems that make risk measurable, including quantification tooling, automated intake and triage, and observability dashboards.
Partner directly with Security Engineering to pressure test architectures, translate findings into prioritized roadmaps, and make investment cases.
Mentor engineers and risk practitioners across the broader organization to foster a robust risk engineering culture.
Conduct threat modeling and structured assessments to identify systematic risks and drive calibration and escalation conversations.
Contribute to quantitative risk work using methods like calibrated estimation and Monte Carlo simulation.
Design AI-native risk tooling using Claude to classify incoming risks and continuously sense changes in the risk landscape.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience, including leading and remediating complex security risks independently.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
Strong programming skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.
Broad knowledge across core security engineering domains with depth in at least one area, such as identity and secrets management, developer security, supply chain, infrastructure security, or secure frameworks.
Calibrated risk judgment with the ability to assign defensible severity and likelihood to ambiguous problems.
Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives and navigating organizational dynamics.
Outstanding communication skills and a track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous technical problems.
Low ego, high empathy, and a passion for AI safety and trustworthy AI systems.

Nice to Have

Owned a named security risk and driven it from discovery through remediation across multiple teams.
Briefed executives on risk decisions and defended recommendations under challenge.
Built security automation, detection, or risk platforms adopted across an engineering organization.
Shipped LLM or agent-powered tooling and workflows that automate security or risk activities.
Security engineering, detection engineering, or offensive security background with a risk-based prioritization mindset.
Built or operated a quantified security risk program using FAIR-style decomposition or Monte Carlo simulation.
Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP compliance frameworks.

Skills and Tools

Python
Rust
C++
Go
LLM and AI-native tooling
Identity and secrets management
Infrastructure and cloud security
Security quantification and risk assessment frameworks

Salary and Benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $320,000 to $405,000 USD. Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and collaborative office spaces.

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation on a mission to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for society. Operating as a single cohesive team focused on large-scale research, Anthropic approaches AI research as an empirical science, valuing impact and collaboration.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should visit the official Anthropic careers page to submit an application for this position.

Skills and tech stack

PythonRustC++LLM

Questions candidates ask

What are the location requirements for the Staff Security Engineer role?

The role is based in San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY, or Seattle, WA, and follows a location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.

What is the annual salary range for this position?

The annual base salary ranges from $320,000 to $405,000 USD.

How many years of experience are required?

Candidates must have a minimum of 8 years of software engineering or security engineering experience.

What programming languages are needed?

Candidates need strong programming skills in Python or at least one systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.

Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship?

Yes, Anthropic sponsors visas and works with an immigration lawyer to help candidates secure them whenever an offer is made.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Anthropic careers page.

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