Staff Security Engineer, Risk Engineering

The Security Risk team at Anthropic is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and driving treatment of the company's most important security risks. We are rebuilding risk management to operate as an engineering function through automation and AI-native platforms. The systems we assess span Anthropic's full security landscape, from authorization primitives to cryptographic foundations. This is largely greenfield work, and you will help define the architecture and discipline.

• Take ownership of Anthropic's most 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.
• Work alongside Security Engineering as a calibrated technical peer who pressure tests architectures and treatment plans.
• Mentor engineers and risk practitioners across Security and the broader engineering organization.
• Work across the breadth of Anthropic's security landscape, spanning identity and secrets management, developer security and supply chain, infrastructure security, and secure frameworks.
• Identify systematic risks through threat modeling and structured assessment, and drive severity calibration and escalation conversations.
• Contribute to quantitative risk work, applying methods such as calibrated estimation and Monte Carlo simulation.
• Design and build AI-native risk tooling that uses Claude to classify incoming risks, augment triage, and continuously sense changes in our risk landscape.
• Create dashboards and data pipelines that give engineering and product teams real-time visibility into their risk posture.
• Partner with Security Engineering and risk owners to design remediation roadmaps explicit about sequencing, ownership, and investment.

• At least 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 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.
• Calibrated risk judgment.
• Experience leading cross-functional security initiatives.
• Outstanding communication skills.
• Track record of bringing clarity and ownership to ambiguous technical problems.
• Low ego and high empathy.
• Passion for AI safety.

• Owned a named security risk and driven it from discovery through remediation across multiple teams.
• Briefed executives on risk decisions.
• 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.
• Built or operated a quantified security risk program (FAIR-style decomposition, Monte Carlo simulation, loss exceedance analysis).
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or FedRAMP.

Annual salary: $320,000—$405,000 USD. Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.

Apply through the Greenhouse job posting. Anthropic recruiters only contact from @anthropic.com addresses. For more information, visit anthropic.com/careers.