Security Labs Engineer
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA · Security
About this role
Anthropic is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in San Francisco, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Rust, C, AWS. Compensation is listed at $405,000–$485,000 per year.
- Role
- Security Engineer
- Function
- security
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Department
- Security
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Job description
from Anthropic careersAbout 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 Role
Security at Anthropic is not a compliance exercise. It is a core part of how we stay safe as we build increasingly capable systems. Our Responsible Scaling Policy commits us to launching structured security R&D projects: ambitious, time-boxed experiments designed to resolve high-uncertainty questions about our long-term security posture.
Each project runs for roughly 6 months with defined exit criteria. Some will succeed and move toward production. Others will fail, and we'll treat that as useful signals. The questions these projects are designed to answer include:
- Can our core research workflows survive extreme isolation?
- Can we get cryptographic guarantees where we currently rely on trust?
- Can AI become our most effective security control?
As a Security Labs Engineer, you own one or more projects end-to-end: scoping the experiment, building the infrastructure, coordinating across teams, running the pilot, documenting results, and where the experiment succeeds, helping scale it into production. This is 0-to-1 and 1-to-10 work.