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Security Engineer jobs at Anthropic sit at the intersection of AI safety and infrastructure protection, covering areas like threat modeling, vulnerability research, and security tooling for large-scale AI systems. Anthropic has a clear track record of sponsoring international candidates across multiple visa categories for technical security positions.
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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
We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Secure Frameworks Research team, which builds high-leverage security frameworks and libraries that make model development secure and prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. You'll collaborate closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic to own critical security foundations, including cryptographic frameworks and secure serialization and authorization systems that empower teams to work securely without becoming security experts themselves.
Key Responsibilities
- Design frameworks and libraries that enable secure handling of sensitive data including model weights, customer data, and training datasets
- Own what you build completely; ensuring outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support
- Enable other teams to build their own security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership beyond your team
- Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams, as well as other Security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls
- Make strategic decisions about which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps
- Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact - the team succeeds when engineers naturally reach for Secure Frameworks' tools rather than building security solutions from scratch
- Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects that balance security rigor with development velocity
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years managing security engineering teams with proven track record of team productivity
- 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment with ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity
- Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings
- Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers in a fast-paced environment
- Low ego, high empathy, and have a track record as a talent magnet
- Experience working with technical internal customers
- Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$405,000—$485,000 USD
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 experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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 on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
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 collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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
We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Secure Frameworks Research team, which builds high-leverage security frameworks and libraries that make model development secure and prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. You'll collaborate closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic to own critical security foundations, including cryptographic frameworks and secure serialization and authorization systems that empower teams to work securely without becoming security experts themselves.
Key Responsibilities
- Design frameworks and libraries that enable secure handling of sensitive data including model weights, customer data, and training datasets
- Own what you build completely; ensuring outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support
- Enable other teams to build their own security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership beyond your team
- Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams, as well as other Security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls
- Make strategic decisions about which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps
- Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact - the team succeeds when engineers naturally reach for Secure Frameworks' tools rather than building security solutions from scratch
- Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects that balance security rigor with development velocity
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years managing security engineering teams with proven track record of team productivity
- 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment with ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity
- Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings
- Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers in a fast-paced environment
- Low ego, high empathy, and have a track record as a talent magnet
- Experience working with technical internal customers
- Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary
$405,000—$485,000 USD
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 experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.
To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
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 on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
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 collaborate with colleagues.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:
Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Align your experience with AI security
Anthropic's security work spans model security, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling for AI development. Framing your background around securing ML pipelines, distributed systems, or research environments positions you more strongly than general enterprise security experience.
Confirm your visa category early
Anthropic sponsors H-1B, H-1B1 visa, and E-3 visas. If you hold Australian citizenship, the E-3 path avoids the H-1B lottery entirely. Clarify which category applies to you before your first recruiter call so the conversation stays on track.
Prepare credentials that satisfy specialty occupation requirements
USCIS requires Security Engineer roles to meet specialty occupation standards, meaning a directly related bachelor's degree or higher. If your degree is in a tangential field, gather documentation of relevant coursework, certifications like CISSP or OSCP, and professional experience to support your petition.
Time your application around H-1B cap cycles
If you need cap-subject H-1B sponsorship, registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Targeting Anthropic roles between November and February gives you the best lead time for your employer to prepare petition materials before the filing window opens.
Use Migrate Mate to target Anthropic's open roles
Anthropic posts Security Engineer openings across several specializations. Use Migrate Mate to filter specifically for Anthropic roles that offer visa sponsorship, so you're applying to positions where sponsorship is already confirmed rather than guessing from the job description.
Get your offer letter details right before filing
Before your employer files the Labor Condition Application with DOL, verify that your job title, duties, and worksite location are accurate. Discrepancies between the LCA and your actual role can create compliance issues or trigger requests for evidence during USCIS adjudication.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Anthropic sponsor H-1B visas for Security Engineers?
Yes, Anthropic sponsors H-1B visas for Security Engineer roles. They also sponsor H-1B1 visas for Chilean and Singaporean nationals and E-3 visas for Australian citizens. For cap-subject H-1B visa petitions, sponsorship depends on selection in the annual USCIS lottery, which runs each March for an October 1 start.
How do I apply for Security Engineer jobs at Anthropic?
Applications go through Anthropic's careers page, where Security Engineer roles are listed by specialization. You can also find and filter Anthropic's sponsored Security Engineer openings through Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles where visa sponsorship has been confirmed. Tailor your application to reflect experience relevant to securing AI infrastructure, not just general enterprise environments.
Which visa types does Anthropic commonly use for Security Engineers?
Anthropic uses H-1B for most internationally sponsored Security Engineers, along with H-1B1 visa for eligible nationals from Chile and Singapore, and E-3 for Australian citizens. The E-3 and H-1B1 categories are not subject to the H-1B lottery, which makes them faster and more predictable paths for eligible candidates than the cap-subject H-1B.
What qualifications does Anthropic expect for Security Engineer roles?
Anthropic's Security Engineer roles typically require a degree in computer science, information security, or a closely related field, plus hands-on experience in areas like threat modeling, penetration testing, cloud security, or secure software development. Experience securing AI or ML infrastructure is increasingly relevant given Anthropic's focus. Certifications like OSCP, CISSP, or CISM can strengthen an application where the degree field is less directly aligned.
How long does the visa sponsorship process take for a Security Engineer at Anthropic?
For E-3 and H-1B1 visas, the timeline from offer acceptance to visa stamp can be as short as four to eight weeks, since these categories are not lottery-dependent. For cap-subject H-1B petitions, plan for a longer runway: registration in March, lottery selection in late March or April, petition filing by June, and a start date no earlier than October 1. USCIS premium processing, currently available for I-129 petitions, can reduce adjudication time to 15 business days.