Manager, Applied AI Cyber Specialists

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Security Leader to build and lead the first Applied AI Security team. You will shape strategy, hire and mentor security architects, and collaborate with Sales, Applied AI Engineering, and cross‑functional partners to deliver secure Claude deployments.

You will also stay hands‑on with select key customers, driving security reviews, threat modeling, and defensive capabilities across the development lifecycle while aligning with Product and Research to improve

Qualifications

• 12+ years in the industry with at least 4 years managing a team of customer‑facing technical people.
• Hands-on security depth in at least one area (application security, detection and response, offensive security, or vulnerability management).
• Experience using LLMs for real security work (code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, or investigation).
• Experience handling large enterprise security deals end-to-end in close partnership with sales.
• Ability to explain security risk and value to a CISO and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, and develop the first Applied AI Architects on the Security team.
• Decide where the team spends its time and how to prioritize accounts.
• Partner with security account executives on joint account plans and forecasts.
• Guide customers from discovery to evaluations and proofs of concept.
• Write security playbooks, reference implementations, and evaluation approaches.
• Carry a few strategic security accounts personally.

Skills

People leadership

Security architecture

Cloud security

Team management

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

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 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

Anthropic’s mission is to ensure that the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI. Security is one of the clearest places where that mission plays out: the same capabilities that help attackers move faster can help defenders move faster too, and helping them use those capabilities safely and well is what this team is for. Security teams are among the earliest and most demanding users of frontier AI. They use Claude to review code at scale, find vulnerabilities before attackers do, and work through alert queues their analysts can’t keep up with. Anthropic’s Applied AI organization is building a dedicated Security team to help them do this well, and we are looking for its first leader. You will build this team from zero. You’ll decide which security customers the team serves first, who you hire and in what order, and how the team works with Sales, Applied AI Engineering, and our security, legal, and trust partners. You’ll also stay hands‑on with a few of our most important security customers, because what you learn in those accounts becomes the playbook for everyone else. You’ll also set the standard for how security customers use Claude responsibly, including where a person has to review the output before anyone acts on it.

What You’ll Do

• Hire, onboard, and develop the first Applied AI Architects on the Security team. Coach senior and early‑career architects differently, and give each one clear goals.
• Decide where the team spends its time: which segments and account types come first, which deals get architect coverage, and how to say no clearly when demand outruns headcount.
• Partner with security account executives on joint account plans, regular pipeline and forecast reviews, and deals where the customer’s security review sets the close date.
• Guide customers from discovery through evaluations and proofs of concept with written success criteria. Then take them from one‑time code scans to sustained workloads: application security in the development lifecycle, continuous automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and vulnerability and threat intelligence.
• Work alongside the security ISVs, systems integrators, and managed security providers already in our customers’ accounts. Keep a clear line between what Anthropic delivers and what partners deliver.
• Bring in Applied AI Engineers and our security, legal, and trust teams when a customer’s build or review needs them.
• Write the first security playbooks, reference implementations, and evaluation approaches. Bring what you learn back to Product, Engineering, and Research, so Claude becomes more useful and more trustworthy for defenders at the same time.
• Carry a small number of strategic security accounts yourself, from executive briefings with CISOs to hands‑on workshops with their engineers.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 12+ years of industry experience with at least 4 years managing a team of customer‑facing technical people, such as solutions architects, sales engineers, or security consultants, and can show how the team grew and performed under you.
• Have hands‑on security depth in at least one area, such as application security, detection and response, offensive security, or vulnerability management, deep enough that practitioners trust your judgment. Application security experience highly preferred.
• Have used LLMs for real security work, such as code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, or investigation, and can say where they helped and where they failed.
• Have worked large enterprise security deals end to end, including customer security reviews, in close partnership with sales.
• Care about making AI both safe and useful for defenders, and can explain security risk and value to a CISO and to the engineers who will run the work, in terms each one cares about.

Annual Salary

$1—$2 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: Currently, 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 do sponsor visas! However, we aren’t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest‑impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large‑scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long‑term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT‑3, Circuit‑Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. 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.

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