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Security Engineer in USA

  • Anthropic
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Seattle, WA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate security controls for reinforcement learning training systems and their infrastructure.
  • Work across orchestration, environments, training, and inference systems.
  • Review RL designs and code, identify security problems, and implement fixes.
  • Build shared libraries, tooling, and observability for RL engineers, researchers, and large fleets.
  • Collaborate with researchers and performance engineers to preserve training correctness, performance, and reliability.
  • Write clear design documents for implemented systems.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one systems language such as Rust, C++, or Go.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or production security systems.
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals and working knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience debugging complex problems across many hosts and services.
  • Ability to reason about tradeoffs among security, performance, and reliability.
  • Strong written communication, including design documentation.
  • Preferred: experience with ML training or inference infrastructure, infrastructure security, Kubernetes, sandboxed or virtualized code execution, fleet observability, research-team support, reinforcement learning, or large language model training workloads.
  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field.

Benefits

  • Annual compensation is listed as $320,000—$405,000 USD.
  • Anthropic offers competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space.
  • The role currently follows a location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more.
  • Anthropic sponsors visas and makes every reasonable effort to obtain one if an offer is made, though sponsorship is not successful for every role or candidate.

Salary: $320k - $405k/yr

Anthropic

Anthropic builds AI systems that are reliable, interpretable, and steerable, with a commitment to ensuring their safety and benefit to users and society. Our work is driven by a dedicated team of researchers, engineers, and policy experts focused on the development of beneficial AI solutions.

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