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A senior-heavy AI-lab security org with a $300K–$405K posted base and Claude-powered tooling.

$300k–$405k
base salary
86/100
Index score
SF · NYC · Seattle · DC
Locations
Hiring
As of October 10, 2026

The Security Engineer, Detection & Response role

Security engineers secure the systems that train, serve and increasingly are Claude: identity and secrets, supply-chain and CI/CD hardening, sandboxing, firmware and BMC security, detection and response, red teaming, and AppSec for agentic and code-execution systems. Reqs skew Senior and Staff+, teams build LLM-driven tooling for their own work, and several reqs are remote-friendly, which is unusual for a lab this size.

The Security Engineering team owns authentication architecture for training infrastructure, cryptographic protection of model weights and training data, and the developer security program, with sub-areas in identity and secrets, supply chain, infrastructure security, secure frameworks, platform and hardware security, D&R, offensive security, threat intel, AppSec and GRC — 51 open reqs, titles skewing Senior and Staff+.

Worth knowing: Anthropic’s AppSec team says Claude is its primary tool — it drives static analysis, drafts vulnerability fixes as pull requests and does first-line bug bounty triage — and Project Glasswing, launched in April 2026 with Claude Mythos Preview, reported over 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities found with partners by May.

Anthropic security engineer salary

$300k–$405k
Base salary
Not published
Total comp (est., with equity)

Base: $300,000–$405,000 is the posted annual salary on Security Engineer, Detection & Response (SF, NYC, Seattle, DC; Greenhouse pay data, listing updated Aug 21, 2026). Related posted bands: Offensive Security $300k–$320k, Senior Software Security and Platform Security $320k–$405k, Staff+ Software Security $405k–$485k. Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi has no usable Anthropic security submissions.

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How Anthropic scores

Compensation
10
Program maturity
7
Career capital
9
Momentum
8

Index score: 86/100. How we rank →

Anthropic security engineer: common questions

Anthropic’s posted base band is $300k–$405k. Base: $300,000–$405,000 is the posted annual salary on Security Engineer, Detection & Response (SF, NYC, Seattle, DC; Greenhouse pay data, listing updated Aug 21, 2026). Related posted bands: Offensive Security $300k–$320k, Senior Software Security and Platform Security $320k–$405k, Staff+ Software Security $405k–$485k. Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi has no usable Anthropic security submissions.
As of October 10, 2026: 51 Security-department reqs on the Greenhouse board (of 645), about 17 of them US security-engineering ICs — Detection & Response, Offensive Security, Threat Intel, Senior and Staff+ Software Security, Staff+ Application Security, Platform and Hardware Security (OpenBMC, OS, firmware), Security Fusion Platform and GRC Platform — across SF, NYC, Seattle and DC. Check the live careers page for current reqs.
Not typically. Experienced hires, skewing senior: Detection & Response asks 3+ years of software engineering or 5+ years of detection engineering and incident response; Offensive Security 5+ years of red teaming; Senior Software Security 5+; Staff+ reqs 7–8+. No entry-level or new-grad security engineer path.
Some are. Office-centered hybrid — all staff are expected in an office at least 25% of the time and most security reqs are tagged on-site; Offensive Security, Threat Intel and Staff+ Application Security reqs are remote-friendly. Detection & Response includes an on-call rotation..

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