Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks

Details

Anthropic is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead the Secure Frameworks Research team. The team builds security frameworks and libraries that make model development secure and prevent classes of vulnerabilities through careful design. The role focuses on cryptographic frameworks, secure serialization, and authorization systems for handling sensitive data such as model weights, customer data, and training datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design frameworks and libraries for the secure handling of sensitive data.
• Own delivered systems end to end, including user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support.
• Provide design pattern guidance to help other teams build security solutions and expand security ownership across the organization.
• Partner with product, research, infrastructure, and other Security teams to integrate frameworks with lower-layer security controls.
• Make strategic decisions about which frameworks to build based on security risk.
• Translate security priorities into prioritized roadmaps.
• Define success metrics for framework adoption and impact.
• Manage and grow a team of engineers delivering projects that balance security rigor with development velocity.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing security engineering teams, with a proven record of team productivity.
• 5+ years of hands-on security and software engineering experience.
• Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment.
• Ability to evaluate security tradeoffs and make risk-based decisions.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including balancing security requirements with developer experience and development velocity.
• Clear and persuasive written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience building diverse, high-performing teams and developing engineers in a fast-paced environment.
• Low ego, high empathy, and a track record of attracting talent.
• Experience working with technical internal customers.
• Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.

Logistics

• Hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.
• Anthropic explicitly sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to obtain visas with support from an immigration lawyer.
• Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.