Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

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: Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

We're looking for engineers to join a new effort building AI-powered products and capabilities for cybersecurity. As a Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products, you'll work across the stack to prototype new ideas and build from the ground up.

This role sits at the intersection of research, product, and go-to-market. You'll work closely with research teams to develop new model capabilities for security applications, prototype and iterate quickly to validate ideas, and engage directly with customers and partners to inform what we build. The right candidate has the technical depth to engage with research, the product instincts to know what's worth building, and the drive to move fast.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and build new AI-powered products for cybersecurity
• Iterate quickly based on customer feedback and what you learn
• Collaborate with research teams to identify and develop new model capabilities for security applications
• Engage directly with customers and partners to understand workflows and inform product direction

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience developing cybersecurity products
• Enjoy fast iteration and are energized by prototyping new ideas
• Have strong product instincts and enjoy defining what to build, not just how to build it
• Are comfortable working closely with research and go-to-market teams
• Have strong communication skills and can work effectively across functions

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Experience in incident response, reverse engineering, network analysis, penetration testing, or similar fields
• Experience working with AI/ML models and building products on top of them
• Experience building agentic applications

Logistics

Annual Salary: $320,000—$405,000 USD

Education Requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based Hybrid Policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

Visa Sponsorship: We do sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa if an offer is made.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. 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.

How We're Different

Anthropic believes that the highest-impact AI research will be big science, working as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — and view AI research as an empirical science. We are an extremely collaborative group, fostering frequent research discussions. Our research directions include GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Software Engineering
• Cybersecurity Product Development
• AI/ML Integration
• Product Prototyping
• Customer Engagement
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Incident Response
• Network Analysis
• Reverse Engineering
• Strong Communication