Engineering Manager, Agent Security Partnerships

at Anthropic

📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States
📍 Seattle, United States

USD 405,000-485,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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Details

Anthropic is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its Agent Security Partnerships team. The team works with teams building Claude and agents to threat-model plans, develop security controls, and safely expand what agents can do. This is primarily a people leadership role focused on managing security engineering teams and reasoning about security risks in a frontier AI environment.

Responsibilities

Hire, mentor, and grow senior and staff security engineers.
Set the team's investment strategy, including deciding which teams receive embedded engineers and for how long.
Support high-stakes safety and security decisions under uncertainty and tight timelines.
Balance long-term investment in shared controls with partner teams' immediate needs.
Deliver large security migrations across Anthropic.
Work through difficult trade-offs with partner teams while building trust and understanding.
Lead security partnerships with product, infrastructure, research, and other teams.

Representative Projects

Inventing and rolling out a classifier-based control for agents.
Co-building a sandbox with a product team and prioritizing enforcement to support adoption.
Defining company-wide security standards for running agents and partnering with teams to meet them.

Requirements

Excellent people management skills, including hiring, developing, and managing senior and staff engineers and growing engineers into staff or lead roles.
Deep security management experience, including managing security engineering teams and communicating risk and trade-offs to executives.
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex trade-offs clearly to executives and engineers.
Resilience, emotional awareness, low ego, and high empathy.
Experience leading large migrations and highly cross-functional initiatives.
Willingness to dive into technical details, make decisions amid ambiguity, and stand behind those decisions.
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience embedding security engineers with product, infrastructure, or research teams, or running a security partnerships team.
Experience with agent security or AI/ML security.
Familiarity with AI safety concepts and research.
Experience leading in a hypergrowth environment.

Compensation

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD

Work Policy and Logistics

Hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office time.
Anthropic explicitly states that it sponsors visas, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.