Staff+ Application Security Engineer
Anthropic · Security
- Location
- Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA | New York City, NY
- Metro
- San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, New York City
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $320K–$485K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 21 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
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…
About the role
Anthropic's Application Security team secures the systems that build, serve, and increasingly are Claude. The attack surface is unlike most AppSec work: multi-agent orchestration, sandboxed code execution, agents holding delegated credentials, untrusted tool…
Key responsibilities
Design, build, and operate Claude-powered security systems — LLM-driven code analysis, automated vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted threat modeling — and own one or more of them end-to-end, including the cross-functional relationships that come with it…
Minimum qualifications
Hands-on application and infrastructure security experience, including cloud and containerized environments Production-quality coding ability in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript, with a track record of building durable systems rather than…
Preferred qualifications
7+ years in application security, security engineering, or security-focused software engineering Already use LLMs as a core part of how you work, with opinions about where they help and where they don't Experience securing agentic, code-execution, or…
Representative projects
An increasingly autonomous vulnerability pipeline — LLM-driven code analysis finds the issue, scores it for real exploitability, and opens the fix PR, with humans as the review step rather than the author Bug bounty operations where Claude handles first-line…
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of…
Logistics
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How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work…
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to…
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