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full-timeSecurity Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
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 Reinforcement learning is how Claude learns to reason, write code, and act autonomously over long horizons. At frontier scale, an RL run is a large distributed system: training, sampling, and environment execution run concurrently across a large fleet of accelerators and hosts. As an engineer in RL Engineering, you'll work on keeping that system secure as it scales. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll work in the RL codebase and the infrastructure underneath it, alongside the engineers and researchers who build and use it. The system is large and changes as fast as the research does, so security work here has to keep up with that pace without costing performance or velocity. We're hiring from two backgrounds: security engineers who want to work on large-scale ML systems, and ML systems or research engineers who want to work on security. Strong candidates have depth in one and real interest in the other. Key responsibilities Design, build, and operate security controls for RL training systems and the infrastructure they run on Work across the stack (orchestration, environments, training, inference) wherever the work is needed Review designs and code across the RL stack, find security problems, and fix them Build shared libraries and tooling that other RL engineers and researchers build on Build the observability needed to understand what these systems are doing Work with researchers and performance engineers to make sure security changes preserve training correctness and performance Write clear design documents for what you build Minimum qualifications Strong software engineering skills in Python and at least one systems language such as Rust, C++, or Go Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or security systems in production Strong understanding of security fundamentals Working knowledge of Linux, containers, and cloud infrastructure Experience debugging complex problems across many hosts and services Ability to reason about tradeoffs between security, performance, and reliability Strong written communication, including design documents Preferred qualifications Experience running ML training or inference infrastructure at scale Experience with infrastructure security, such as isolation, access control, networking, or identity Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes, and with sandboxed or virtualized code execution at scale Experience building observability for large fleets Experience supporting research teams or other fast-moving internal users Familiarity with reinforcement learning or large language model training workloads The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $320,000 — $405,000 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. 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agenc
| Role | Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security |
|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic |
| Location | San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-20 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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- 1ApplicationSubmit your resume through the apply link.
- 2ScreeningRecruiter reviews your background against the role.
- 3AssessmentA technical test, assignment, or coding round, depending on the role.
- 4Interview(s)One or more rounds with the hiring team.
- 5OfferOffer letter with compensation and start date.
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0/4Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security at Anthropic: frequently asked questions
- What is the salary for this role?
- Anthropic has not stated compensation in the listing. Check the original posting or ask during the application process.
- Is the Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security position remote, hybrid or onsite?
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- How do I apply for the Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security role?
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