Staff Application Security Engineer M and A
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/24/2026
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead pre-close security due diligence and post-close security integration for acquisitions. You will assess risks, coordinate testing, automate integration workflows, align stakeholders, maintain security playbooks, contribute to core application-security work, and participate in operational rotations.
Requirements
- Application and infrastructure security experience
- Cloud security
- Container security
- Ability to assess unfamiliar codebases or architectures
- Risk assessment
- Production coding ability in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Threat modeling
- Vulnerability identification
- Written and verbal communication
- 7+ years of application security, security consulting, or security architecture experience
- M&A security due diligence
- SAST
- DAST
- Bug bounty
- Vulnerability management
- Security automation
- LLM security
Responsibilities
- Lead pre-close security due diligence on prospective acquisitions
- Drive post-close security integration for acquired systems
- Coordinate adjacent security engineering teams
- Translate security work across internal and external deal stakeholders
- Formalize and scale M&A security playbooks and Claude-powered tooling
- Participate in operational rotations
- Contribute to core application security projects between deals
Benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours