# Staff + Software Security Engineer, Labs at Anthropic

- Company: Anthropic
- What the company does: Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://www.anthropic.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-10-05
- Apply by: 2026-11-19
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5440477008?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/anthropic-staff-software-security-engineer-labs/

## About the role

Frontier AI is on track to be among the most consequential and most adversarially-targeted technology in the world. The capability curve is steep, the adversaries who want these systems are extremely well-resourced, and the security bar this will eventually require is well beyond where the industry operates today. Incremental hardening alone is not going to close that gap, so we need breakthroughs and a group of people to go find them. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Genuinely care about where AI is heading and want to work on the security problems that determine whether it goes well. This is the most important thing on this list
- Have a track record of choosing the problem yourself and seeing it through, rather than only executing a plan someone else handed you
- Are comfortable jumping between domains and layers of the stack when the problem calls for it, and have actually done so
- Have run prototypes or experiments where the goal was answering a hard question rather than shipping a permanent system, including ones that didn't pan out
- Write clearly enough to turn weeks of work into a couple of pages someone can act on
- Change your mind when the evidence says to, and are fine being the least-expert person in a room full of specialists

Tags: Security

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