Security Engineer (Corporate Security)

Location: San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, or Washington, DC; hybrid attendance at a US office at least 25% of the time is expected

Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Drive endpoint hardening across macOS, Windows, Linux, and ChromeOS through device management, application allowlisting, patching, and browser policies.
• Extend device-trust and zero-trust access controls while maintaining a practical employee experience.
• Build joiner, mover, and leaver automation, exception workflows, posture-driven policies, and Claude-assisted security triage.
• Lead SaaS and identity governance covering OAuth grants, delegated administration, chat applications, browser extensions, and software security reviews.
• Partner with Security, IT, and Engineering on telemetry, detections, shared standards, and secure AI-agent operations.

Requirements

• Hands-on endpoint security engineering experience with macOS, Windows, Linux, or ChromeOS.
• Proficiency in Python and scripting, with experience building integrations, automation, internal tools, and detections.
• Strong working knowledge of identity and access management, SaaS security, and zero-trust access.
• Ability to threat-model environments, prioritize meaningful problems, define completion criteria, and deliver solutions end to end.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience in a relevant field.
• Ability to work from one of Anthropic’s US offices at least 25% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience defining security-program scope and selecting tools.
• Experience rolling out enforcement changes to large user populations.
• Mobile security, configuration-as-code, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, or corporate SaaS governance experience.
• Experience building LLM-assisted security tooling and adopting controls through influence and partnership.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on high-impact AI safety and research.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available for eligible roles and candidates, with immigration-lawyer support.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.
• Candidates may use AI in the application process according to Anthropic’s candidate AI-usage policy.