Staff Application Security Engineer

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded0 current maintainers0 active leadsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026

San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will design, build, and operate Claude-powered security systems. You will lead secure design reviews and threat modeling, evolve bug-bounty operations, partner on product security decisions, and participate in operational rotations for escalations, incidents, and launch consultations.

Requirements

  • Application and infrastructure security experience
  • Cloud security
  • Container security
  • Production coding ability in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
  • Threat modeling
  • Vulnerability identification
  • Technical communication
  • 7+ years of application security, security engineering, or security-focused software engineering experience
  • LLM security
  • Bug bounty program experience
  • Vulnerability management
  • Security automation
  • Penetration testing

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate Claude-powered security systems
  • Lead secure design reviews and threat modeling for AI systems
  • Evolve automated bug bounty operations
  • Partner as an embedded security owner on product launches and architecture
  • Participate in operational rotations for bounty escalations, incident response, and launch consultations

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours