Anthropic
Technology
Staff+SecurityEngineer,RiskEngineering
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“Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering at Anthropic. Skills: Security risk engineering, AI-native platforms, Risk quantification, System architecture. Drive complex security risks. Build risk measurement systems”
Industry & Context.
Ambiguous problems; Ambiguous signals
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years software engineering, 8+ years security engineering, Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience, Python programming skills, Systems language programming skills, Broad security engineering knowledge, Depth in one security domain, Calibrated risk judgment, Cross-functional initiative leadership, Translate technical concepts
Nice to Have
Owned a named security risk, Briefed executives on risk, Built security automation platforms, Shipped LLM-powered tooling
What You'll Do.
Drive complex security risks
Build risk measurement systems
Build intake and triage systems
Build observability systems
Pressure test architectures
Translate findings into roadmaps
Make investment cases
Mentor risk practitioners
Build risk engineering culture
Identify systematic risks
Drive severity calibration
Drive escalation conversations
Contribute to quantitative risk work
Design AI-native risk tooling
Create data pipelines
Design remediation roadmaps
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Security Engineering partnership; Partner teams; Broader engineering organization; Product teams
Communication Scope
Translate technical concepts
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning
Full Job Description
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 business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role The Security Risk team is responsible for how Anthropic identifies, prioritizes, and drives treatment of its most important security risks. We are rebuilding risk management to operate as an engineering function through automation and AI-native platforms to enable decision making. The systems we assess span Anthropic’s full security landscape, from authorization primitives to cryptographic foundations, so the team needs breadth across domains and the ability to go deep in any of them. Security Risk, in deep partnership with Security Engineering, will help define the security program to shape how both engineers and non-engineers build and ship software. The conventional GRC playbook was not built for a company shipping frontier AI. You will help define what replaces it, with a direct line to CISO-level decisions and the mandate to build the AI-native platform underneath. You’ll work across a breadth of areas from identity and secrets management to infrastructure security, with your focus shaped by your strengths, ability to learn quickly, and the team’s priorities. This is largely greenfield work, and you will help define the architecture and discipline. Key responsibilities Take ownership of Anthropic’s most complex security risk problems and drive them end to end with minimal oversight, turning ambiguous signals into a defensible view of severity and likelihood and seeing them through escalation, treatment decisions, and remediation Build the systems that make risk measurable and let risk work scale, including quantification tooling, automated intake and triage, and the observability that partner teams use to understan
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