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- Design and implement secure-by-default controls as they relate to our software supply chain, AI model training systems, and deployment environments.
- Perform security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability assessments to identify and remediate risks.
- Support Anthropic's responsible disclosure and bug bounty programs and participate in the Security Engineering team's on-call rotation.
- Accelerate the development of Anthropic's security engineers through mentorship and coaching, and contribute to company building activities like interviewing.
- Help build greater security awareness across the organization and coach engineers on secure coding practices.
- Lead and contribute towards large efforts such as building multi-party authorization for AI-critical infrastructure, helping to reduce sensitive production access, and securing build pipelines.
- Have 8+ years of software development experience with a security focus.
- Have experience applying security best practices, like the principle of least privilege and defense-in-depth, to complex systems.
- Are proficient in languages like Rust, Python, Javascript/Typescript.
- Have a track record of launching successful security initiatives and working cross-functionally to enact such changes.
- Are passionate about making AI systems more safe, interpretable, and aligned with human values.
- Have experience supporting fast-paced startup engineering teams
- Care about AI safety risk scenarios
- 100% of the skills needed to perform the job
- Formal certifications or education credentials
- Machine learning experience or knowledge
- The expected salary range for this position is $320k - $405k
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic's good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
Senior Software Security Engineer - San Francisco, CA, United States - Anthropic
Description
Anthropic is working on frontier AI research that has the potential to transform how humans and machines interact. As our models grow more powerful, securing them from exfiltration or misuse becomes critically important. In this role, you'll be helping to build and institute controls to lock down our AI training pipelines, apply security architecture patterns built for adversarial environments, and secure our model weights as we scale model capabilities.
About Anthropic Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product. Responsibilities: