Staff+ Software Security Engineer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA. Hybrid policy requires staff to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate complex security systems across identity, secrets management, infrastructure security, developer security, and secure frameworks.
• Use threat modeling and risk assessment to identify systematic risks and implement controls and supporting infrastructure.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows against software supply-chain attacks through isolated builds, signed attestations, dependency verification, and policy enforcement.
• Protect model weights, customer data, and training datasets through credential issuance, rotation, workload authentication, encryption, and multi-cloud security controls.
• Build cryptographic frameworks, mTLS infrastructure, secure serialization, authorization systems, and Kubernetes security controls.
• Mentor engineers, guide cross-functional security initiatives, and help engineering teams adopt secure design patterns.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience with deep security expertise and a record of leading complex initiatives independently.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
• Strong programming skills in Python or a systems language such as Go, Rust, or C/C++.
• Deep knowledge of identity systems, cryptographic primitives, secrets management, and Kubernetes security primitives.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, communicating technical concepts clearly, and resolving ambiguous technical problems.
• Passion for AI safety and trustworthy AI systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale AI or cloud identity and secrets management systems, security frameworks, or developer security programs.
• Experience with Nix, Bazel, Kubernetes-based CI/CD, SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, Linux isolation primitives, or multi-cloud security architecture.
• Experience with admission controllers, CNI-level policies, service mesh security, eBPF, or kernel security policies.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment for collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with individualized support from an immigration lawyer.