Engineering Manager, Cybersecurity Products

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 builders 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 teams 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 teams 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 Anthropics 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

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How were 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. Were 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.

Come work with us!

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. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.