Applied AI Architect, Cyber

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in San Francisco is seeking an Applied AI cybersecurity specialist to help the world’s largest organizations secure Claude deployments and integrate security into their software development lifecycles.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Research and Engineering to guide customers from discovery to deployment, deliver technical content, and run workshops with security teams to secure production workloads.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account executives and account architects to understand a customer’s security program, identify where Claude can take on real security work, and translate that into a technical plan and a business case
• Serve as the primary security-domain technical advisor to large enterprise customers, from discovery and initial evaluation through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer success
• Move customers from one-time code scanning to sustained security workloads: application security embedded in the software development lifecycle, continuous automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and threat intelligence that answers "does this new vulnerability affect us, and where"
• Build and maintain the reference implementations, harnesses, and evaluation approaches customers use to run these workloads with Claude, and help customers adapt them to their own environments and controls
• Design and run workshops and hands‑on sessions where customer security teams engage directly with Claude on their own code and workflows
• Work with security industry partners on shared accounts, enabling them to deliver Claude-powered security outcomes and drawing a clear line between what Anthropic delivers directly and what partners deliver
• Deliver technical content across the full range of audiences: deep dives with security engineers and appsec teams, and value‑and‑risk-focused conversations with CISOs and executives
• Define and track how deeply each security workload is adopted across your accounts, and work with our Product and Engineering teams on the telemetry needed to measure it
• Write the playbooks and best practices for each security workload that the rest of the field can reuse, including how Claude complements the security tooling customers already own
• Identify common patterns and feature gaps and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a cybersecurity specialist working alongside our enterprise account teams to help the world’s largest organizations use Claude to secure the systems and software they build and run. You’ll combine deep security expertise with customer‑facing skills to help customers along their cybersecurity journey with Claude, wherever they are starting from, and wherever they want to go.

Enterprise security teams are at very different stages with AI: some are running their first experiments, others are ready to put Claude to work across their security program. They also span every kind of organization, each with its own priorities: regulated industries like financial services, insurance, and healthcare; strategic accounts like semiconductors, focused on protecting IP, securing industrial control systems, and handling export controls; and digital natives and public sector agencies with their own threat models. You’ll meet customers where they are, help identify where Claude can take on meaningful security work, and guide them from early pilots to lasting, production security workloads. Along the way, you’ll help security leaders explain the value of this work in terms their executives care about.

Working closely with our Sales, Product, Research and Engineering teams, you’ll guide customers from technical discovery through deployment, and you’ll work with the partners in the security ecosystem — ISVs, systems integrators, and managed security providers — that already serve these customers, enabling them where they own the engagement rather than competing with them.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account executives and account architects to understand a customer’s security program, identify where Claude can take on real security work, and translate that into a technical plan and a business case
• Serve as the primary security-domain technical advisor to large enterprise customers, from discovery and initial evaluation through deployment, coordinating internally across multiple teams and stakeholders to drive customer success
• Move customers from one-time code scanning to sustained security workloads: application security embedded in the software development lifecycle, continuous automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and threat intelligence that answers "does this new vulnerability affect us, and where"
• Build and maintain the reference implementations, harnesses, and evaluation approaches customers use to run these workloads with Claude, and help customers adapt them to their own environments and controls
• Design and run workshops and hands‑on sessions where customer security teams engage directly with Claude on their own code and workflows
• Work with security industry partners on shared accounts, enabling them to deliver Claude-powered security outcomes and drawing a clear line between what Anthropic delivers directly and what partners deliver
• Deliver technical content across the full range of audiences: deep dives with security engineers and appsec teams, and value‑and‑risk-focused conversations with CISOs and executives
• Define and track how deeply each security workload is adopted across your accounts, and work with our Product and Engineering teams on the telemetry needed to measure it
• Write the playbooks and best practices for each security workload that the rest of the field can reuse, including how Claude complements the security tooling customers already own
• Identify common patterns and feature gaps and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams