Security Engineer, RF and Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

Details

Anthropic is seeking an engineer to own radio-frequency monitoring, technical surveillance countermeasures (TSCM), and emanations security across data center sites and related critical infrastructure. The role covers the threat basis, monitoring systems, sensors, receivers, site baselines, detection logic, tooling, and pre-opening security sign-off. External specialist partners conduct hands-on sweep and measurement work, while this role defines the scope, directs on-site activities, and evaluates deliverables.

The role works with physical security systems engineers, security monitoring platform engineers, data center operations, construction, legal teams, site operators, and landlords. It is based in San Francisco, with remote applicants in the United States considered, and requires regular travel to data center sites.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop on-site RF monitoring and detection, including sensor, receiver, and antenna selection and placement.
• Define spectrum monitoring architecture, site RF baselines, baseline maintenance processes, and analyst-trusted detections.
• Build detection and classification tooling, instruments and software for checks between sweeps, findings and evidence records, and AI agents for alert triage and sensor-health monitoring.
• Own TSCM end to end, including sweep cadence, event-driven triggers, scopes, acceptance criteria, evidence handling, and closure.
• Define emanations-security posture, assessment methods, zoning, separation, shielding, filtering, and protected cabling requirements.
• Detect radios present in each zone, including cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, IoT, and trunked radio, and produce evidence that wireless and device policies are being followed.
• Write scopes and deliverable standards for specialist partners, direct on-site work, and approve or reject assessment reports.
• Carry RF and emanations requirements into site designs, lease terms, construction reviews, and pre-opening reviews, including final sweeps and assessments.

Requirements

• Experience building at least one RF monitoring or detection system end to end, from receiver and antenna selection through alert-generating software.
• Engineering-level understanding of RF propagation, modulation, spectrum analysis, and antenna behavior, with hands-on experience using spectrum analyzers and software-defined radios.
• Experience planning and conducting TSCM sweeps, including understanding their capabilities, limitations, and methods adversaries may use to bypass them.
• Hands-on RF security, TSCM, or emanations experience in data centers, critical infrastructure, or across a large hardware fleet.
• Ability to read and review code, design data systems for detection and monitoring tools, and build automation using Git, code review, and AI coding agents.
• Understanding of compromising emanations and the tradeoffs of zoning, shielding, and filtering; ability to write requirements that construction teams, landlords, and assessors can implement and test.
• Ability to direct specialist vendors, define scopes, verify work, and reject inadequate reports.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience assessing compromising emanations and shielding or filtering tradeoffs in live facilities, using formal emanations or counter-surveillance standards such as TEMPEST, ICD 705-style construction requirements, or a corporate equivalent.
• Experience building signal-classification or spectrum-analysis pipelines at scale or tuning RF detections for security operations workflows.
• Familiarity with airspace or drone RF detection and its distinction from on-site monitoring.
• Experience working in colocation or multi-tenant facilities.
• Experience building AI agents or automation that replaces recurring manual security work.

Compensation and Logistics

• Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD.
• Staff are generally expected to work from an Anthropic office at least 25% of the time under the location-based hybrid policy, although some roles may require more office time.
• Regular travel to data center sites is required.
• Anthropic explicitly offers visa sponsorship, subject to role and candidate eligibility.
• Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.