Engineering Manager, Agent Security Partnerships
Anthropic · New York City, NY | Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
About this role
**Engineering Manager, Agent Security Partnerships** **About Anthropic** Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. **About the role** Agent Security’s mission is to safely increase how much the world’s work agents can do, starting inside Anthropic. As Claude writes and ships code, runs experiments, and acts on people’s behalf, the key challenge is operating safely—especially in worst-case scenarios. The Partnerships team pairs security engineers with the teams building Claude, building agents, and relying on agents. When partner teams want agents to do more, you threat model the plan and build controls together—often creating new controls from first principles, then scaling what works across Anthropic. This is a people leadership role. You’ll lead a team of security engineers and help them reason about security and safety in a fast-moving, frontier environment. **Key responsibilities** - Hire, mentor, and grow senior and staff security engineers; raise the bar as the team scales - Set the team’s investment strategy (which teams get embedded engineers, and for how long) - Support the team through high-stakes safety and security calls under uncertainty and tight timelines - Balance long-term investment in shared controls vs. partner teams’ immediate asks - Deliver large security migrations across Anthropic - Work through difficult tradeoffs with partner teams in ways that build trust **Representative projects (examples)** - Invented a new classifier-based control for agents and helped roll it out with an internal partner team - Co-built a sandbox with a product team, choosing what to enforce first to drive adoption - Defined company-wide security standards for running agents and partnered with many teams to meet them **Minimum qualifications** - Excellent people management skills (hiring, developing, managing senior/staff engineers; keeping delivery on track through changing priorities) - Deep security management experience (leading security engineering teams; advising executives on risk/tradeoffs) - Strong written and oral communication skills (explaining hard tradeoffs clearly) - Resilience, emotional awareness, low ego, and high empathy - Experience leading large migrations and highly cross-functional work - Willingness to dive into technical details to resolve complex tradeoffs—and stand by decisions **Preferred qualifications** - Experience embedding security engineers with product, infrastructure, or research teams—or running a security partnerships team - Agent security or AI/ML security experience - Familiarity with AI safety concepts and research - Experience leading in hypergrowth **Compensation (Annual Salary)** $405,000 — $485,000 USD **Logistics** - **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent combination of education/training/experience) - **Required field of study:** Field relevant to the role (via coursework, training, or professional experience) - **Minimum years of experience:** Correlates with internal job level requirements - **Location-based hybrid policy:** Expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more) - **Visa sponsorship:** Yes—Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to support visas; not every role/candidate is eligible **Apply** We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification. Not all strong candidates will match every listed requirement. **Safety note** A
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