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Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist

Join Anthropic as a Cybersecurity Specialist to leverage AI in enhancing security for enterprise accounts across various industries.

Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Compensation
$300k–$400k/yr
Level
senior
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 1 day ago

First seen on Joblaze 1 day ago

Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago

What you'll build

  • Understand customer security programs
  • Serve as security-domain technical advisor
  • Build and maintain reference implementations
  • Run workshops and hands-on sessions
  • Write playbooks and best practices

Must have

  • 5+ years in security roles
  • Hands-on depth in application security
  • Experience in a technical customer-facing role
  • Experience with large enterprise customers
  • Ability to translate between security teams and executives

Nice to have

  • Experience with offensive security
  • Comfort with Python and CI/CD
  • Hands-on experience using LLMs for security work
  • A love of teaching
  • Collaborative approach to working across teams

Practical constraints

  • Expected to be in the office at least 25% of the time
  • Travel occasionally to customer sites

AI in the day-to-day

You’ll help customers see where Claude can take on real security work.

Requirements

Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Benefits

401k Match Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist at Anthropic focuses on integrating AI solutions into enterprise security programs, collaborating closely with account teams to identify and implement effective security strategies. The position requires expertise in application security, secure software development, and familiarity with cloud environments, alongside strong communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders. Ideal candidates have significant experience in security roles and a background in technical customer-facing positions, making them well-suited for navigating complex enterprise environments. Anthropic emphasizes collaboration across teams, ensuring that s

Joblaze insights

  • Listed yesterday — first seen on Joblaze October 16, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page October 16, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
  • Starts above 90% of 104 comparable senior security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $179,900 across 46 companies). See Python salary trends
  • Python appears in 41.1% of 336 comparable senior security roles in United States; Penetration Testing appears in 0.9% of 336 comparable senior security roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist role remote?
It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the salary range?
Anthropic lists $300,000–$400,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist role.
Where is the role based?
Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA, United States.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Application Security, CI/CD, Penetration Testing, Python, Threat Intelligence, cloud environments.
Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Anthropic targets senior candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the role

Anthropic’s Applied AI team helps the world’s largest organizations put Claude to work. As a Cybersecurity Specialist on Applied AI, you’ll be part of an overlay team of domain experts who sit alongside our enterprise account teams and bring deep security expertise to the accounts where it matters most.

You won’t own an account. You’ll be the security expert the account team pulls in to win and grow the most important security conversations: helping CISOs and security leaders see where Claude can take on real security work, then guiding them from early pilots to durable, production workloads. You’ll cover a portfolio of enterprise accounts across regulated industries like financial services, insurance, and healthcare, strategic accounts like semiconductors (IP protection, industrial control systems, export controls), and digital natives and public sector agencies, each with its own threat model.

How this team works

  • You partner with account executives, account architects, and generalist Applied AI engineers, who own the customer relationship and the broader technical engagement. You bring the security depth they don’t have time to build.
  • You work across many accounts at once, so the playbooks, reference implementations, and evaluation approaches you build are reused across the field, not just for one customer.
  • You are the connection point between the field and Anthropic’s Product, Research, and Engineering teams, turning what you see in customer security programs into product feedback.
  • You work alongside ISVs, systems integrators, and managed security providers who already serve these customers, enabling them where they own the engagement rather than competing with them.

Responsibilities

  • Join account teams to understand a customer’s security program, identify where Claude can do meaningful security work, and turn that into a technical plan and business case
  • Serve as the security-domain technical advisor on strategic enterprise accounts, from discovery through deployment
  • Move customers from one-time code scanning to sustained security workloads: application security in the SDLC, continuous automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and threat intelligence that answers “does this new vulnerability affect us, and where”
  • Build and maintain reference implementations, harnesses, and evaluation approaches, and help customers adapt them to their own environments and controls
  • Run workshops and hands-on sessions where customer security teams use Claude on their own code and workflows
  • Equip partners to deliver Claude-powered security outcomes, with a clear line between what Anthropic delivers and what partners deliver
  • Speak credibly to every audience, from appsec engineers to CISOs and executives, including how to explain the value and risk of security work in business terms
  • Define and track adoption depth for each security workload across your accounts, and work with Product and Engineering on the telemetry to measure it
  • Write the playbooks and best practices the rest of the field can reuse, including how Claude complements the security tooling customers already own
  • Develop reference customers who can speak to the value they’re realizing
  • Stay current on frontier LLM capabilities and the new classes of vulnerabilities and attacks they surface
  • Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops and technical deep dives

You may be a good fit if you have

  • 5+ years in security roles, with hands-on depth in at least two of: application security and secure SDLC, offensive security and penetration testing, detection and response, or threat intelligence and vulnerability management
  • Experience in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, security consultant, TAM), or on a security team where you had to win investment from leadership
  • Experience with large enterprise customers and complex, multi-stakeholder buying cycles, including working alongside the vendors and partners already in the account
  • The ability to translate between security teams, engineering teams, and executives
  • Comfort with Python, CI/CD, and cloud environments, plus hands-on experience using LLMs for security work such as code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, or investigation
  • A love of teaching and a collaborative approach to working across teams and balancing competing priorities

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:
$300,000—$400,000 USD

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