Security Risk Analyst, Risk Engineering

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Security Risk Analyst to help identify, quantify, and drive treatment of critical security risks as the company expands its frontier AI capabilities. You will work with leadership to translate risk questions into decisions, build quantitative models, and partner with Security Engineering to ensure risk-informed security investments.

Expect to leverage FAIR-based methods, Monte Carlo simulation, and modern automation to scale risk work, while communicating tradeoffs clearly

Qualifications

• Experience leading risk analysis end to end.
• Ability to decompose security risks quantitatively.
• Comfort presenting to C-suite and leadership teams.
• Experience applying FAIR-based methods and quantitative risk.
• Proficiency with Python or R for analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead quantitative analysis of top security risk scenarios using FAIR, calibrated estimation, and simulation.
• Partner with Security Engineering to assess threat scenarios and control effectiveness.
• Frame risk decisions with clear recommendations and uncertainty where appropriate.
• Develop risk metrics and dashboards for leadership risk reviews.
• Scale risk analysis using AI/automation and build reusable methods and templates.

Skills

Risk analysis

Quantitative analysis

FAIR modeling

Monte Carlo

Python/R

Leadership

Decision framing

AI/automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Python

R

Spreadsheets

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

The Security Risk team is responsible for how Anthropic identifies, prioritizes, and drives treatment of its most important security risks. We are rebuilding risk management to operate as an engineering function, using automation, quantitative risk and AI-native platforms to enable decision making. The risks we assess span Anthropic's full security landscape, so the team needs breadth across domains and the judgment to go deep wherever a decision demands it. Security Risk, in deep partnership with Security Engineering, helps define the security program and shapes how investment and treatment decisions get made.

The conventional GRC playbook was not built for a company shipping frontier AI. You will help define what replaces it, with a direct line to CISO-level decisions. As a Security Risk Analyst you will take risk questions from leadership and partner teams and drive them to a decision. Sometimes that is a fast, structured qualitative assessment and other times it is a deep FAIR-based quantitative analysis. Either way you bring leadership a clear position, the tradeoffs, and honest uncertainty, and you defend it under challenge. In parallel, you will help turn quantitative risk into a product partner teams can leverage, and define the standards a growing risk function will run on.

Key responsibilities

• Enable leadership and partner teams to make risk-informed decisions. Take ambiguous risk questions, drive them to a documented decision, and communicate the quantitative and qualitative tradeoffs clearly

• Lead quantitative analysis of the company's top security risk scenarios using FAIR, calibrated estimation, and simulation, working with the engineers who own the systems and presenting results in terms leadership can act on

• Partner with Security Engineering to assess threat scenarios and control effectiveness so security investment is right-sized to actual risk and remediation is sequenced where it buys down the most risk

• Frame escalations and risk treatment decisions with a clear recommendation, an honest statement of uncertainty, and re-evaluation triggers, and pressure test those decisions with risk owners

• Shape the analysis and narrative behind leadership risk reviews, and help define risk appetite and the risk metrics the organization should measure and why

• Use AI and automation to scale risk analysis, and own the calibration and quality review that keep the outputs trustworthy

• Turn one-off analyses into reusable methods, templates, and training so risk analysis becomes increasingly self service for partner teams, and raise the analytical quality of the risk register

You may be a good fit if you

• Have owned security or technology risk analysis end to end, qualitative and quantitative, and can point to a decision your output changed, whether a funding call, a launch call, a remediation sequence, or a documented acceptance

• Have hands-on FAIR-style quantification experience, including scenario decomposition, calibrated estimation, and Monte Carlo simulation in Python, R, or spreadsheet tooling, briefed to decision makers

• Thrive in ambiguity. You frame a moving question into something analyzable, pick the depth that fits, and drive to a decision rather than a report

• Put defensible severity and likelihood on ambiguous problems, state uncertainty honestly, and change your position when the evidence changes

• Have enough technical security depth to decompose an attack path with security engineers and be credible in the room

• Can compress a complex risk position into one paragraph for the CISO, make the tradeoff explicit, and defend it under pointed questions

• Use Claude or other LLMs as daily working tools and review model output critically