Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks

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About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is a growing team of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Role overview

We are seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Frameworks Research team. The team builds high-leverage security frameworks and libraries that make model development secure and prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. The role collaborates closely with teams and leaders across Anthropic to own critical security foundations, including cryptographic frameworks and secure serialization and authorization systems that enable teams to work securely without becoming security experts themselves.

Annual Salary: $405,000 - $485,000 USD

Responsibilities

• Design frameworks and libraries that enable secure handling of sensitive data including model weights, customer data, and training datasets
• Own what you build completely; ensuring outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support
• Enable other teams to build their own security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership beyond your team
• Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams, as well as other Security teams to ensure frameworks integrate smoothly with lower-layer security controls
• Make strategic decisions about which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps
• Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact
• Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects that balance security rigor with development velocity

Requirements / Minimum qualifications

• 3+ years managing security engineering teams with a proven track record of team productivity
• 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment with the ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity
• Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings
• Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers in a fast-paced environment
• Low ego, high empathy, and a track record as a talent magnet
• Experience working with technical internal customers
• Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Logistics & workplace policy

• Locations: San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA
• Location-based hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more time in office)
• Minimum years of experience: aligned with internal job level requirements
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist where possible

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration.

Additional notes

Anthropic encourages candidates to apply even if they do not meet every qualification listed and provides guidance on candidate AI usage during the application process.