Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space for collaboration

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an Engineering Manager for an AI-powered cybersecurity team in New York. This dynamic role focuses on leading engineers through the product lifecycle, from prototyping to deployment. Candidates must have extensive software engineering and cybersecurity experience.

You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, ensure product alignment with customer needs, and maintain the energy and innovation of a small team. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years managing engineers.
• Experience shipping cybersecurity products like SIEM or EDR.
• Comfortable in design reviews and the team's code.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team, focusing on hiring and culture.
• Translate customer feedback into product improvements.
• Make architectural decisions across the full stack.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Managing engineers

Cybersecurity products

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building AI-powered cybersecurity products. The work spans research, product, and go-to-market.

Your team will prototype and ship products that use frontier models to defend code and infrastructure. You will set technical direction, partner with research to turn new model capabilities into products, and stay close to customers so the team builds the right things, not just builds things well.

This is a builder's role. The team is small, the pace is high, and you should expect to be in the code, in customer calls, and in research reviews the same week. You also need to scale the team without losing the prototyping energy that got the product here.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the team: hiring, performance, and the culture that keeps strong engineers doing their best work
• Stay close to customers, design partners, and the security community; turn what you learn into products and unblock the team on the ones that matter
• Own architectural decisions across the full stack, from agentic systems and model orchestration to product surfaces, integrations, and data infrastructure
• Coordinate with GTM, partnerships, and other product areas
• Grow the next layer of leadership on the team

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 8+ years of software engineering experience and 4+ years managing engineers, with ownership of a team's hiring, performance, and technical direction
• Have shipped cybersecurity products in production (SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, application security, threat detection, incident response, or security automation)
• Have taken a team from prototype through first paying customers to scaled deployment
• Are technical and hands‑on: comfortable in design reviews and in the team's code
• Have strong product instincts and a record of helping teams decide what to build, not just how
• Communicate clearly across functions and keep research, product, GTM, and executive partners aligned through ambiguity
• Treat direct customer contact as a primary input to your roadmap
• Care deeply about Anthropic's mission and about developing AI responsibly and safely

Strong Candidates May Also Have Experience With

• Hands‑on security expertise: application security, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, incident response, penetration testing, or detection engineering
• Building products on LLMs, including agentic systems, evals, and prompt and model iteration loops
• Strict data‑handling environments (BYOC, CMEK, regulated industries, governments)
• Both startup and enterprise‑scale company experience
• Working closely with research to translate capability into shipped product
• Ecosystem partnerships and MCP, CI/CD, or source‑control integrations

Compensation

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

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy

We expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship

We sponsor visas. We will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa for an offered candidate.

Benefits

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.