Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

10h•$380,000 - $400,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic’s Applied AI team helps large organizations put Claude to work. The Applied AI Architect, Security Specialist serves as a security-domain expert alongside enterprise account teams, advising strategic customers on where Claude can support meaningful security work and guiding implementations from early pilots to sustained production workloads. The role covers enterprise customers across regulated industries, strategic sectors, digital-native companies, and public-sector agencies. The specialist partners with account executives, account architects, generalist Applied AI engineers, and external partners. They work across multiple accounts, creating reusable playbooks, reference implementations, and evaluation approaches, and relay customer needs to Anthropic’s Product, Research, and Engineering teams. The role includes customer workshops and occasional travel to customer sites.

Requirements

At least 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 such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, security consultant, or TAM, or experience on a security team that required winning leadership investment.
Experience with large enterprise customers and complex, multi-stakeholder buying cycles, including working with vendors and partners already serving the account.
Ability to translate between security teams, engineering teams, and executives.
Comfort with Python, CI/CD, and cloud environments.
Hands-on experience using LLMs for security work such as code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, or investigation.
Love of teaching and a collaborative approach to working across teams and balancing competing priorities.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Relevant field of study, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Responsibilities

Join account teams to understand customers’ security programs, identify suitable applications for Claude, and develop technical plans and business cases.
Advise on strategic enterprise accounts from discovery through deployment as the security-domain technical expert.
Help customers develop sustained security workloads, including application security in the SDLC, automated penetration testing, alert triage and investigation, and threat intelligence and vulnerability-impact analysis.
Build and maintain reference implementations, harnesses, and evaluation approaches, and help customers adapt them to their environments and controls.
Run workshops and hands-on sessions using customers’ own code and workflows.
Enable partners to deliver Claude-powered security outcomes and clarify the division of responsibilities between Anthropic and partners.
Communicate with audiences ranging from application-security engineers to CISOs and executives, explaining the business value and risks of security work.
Define and track adoption depth for security workloads across accounts and work with Product and Engineering on measurement telemetry.
Create reusable playbooks and best practices, including guidance on how Claude complements customers’ existing security tools.
Develop reference customers who can speak to the value they are realizing.
Stay current on frontier LLM capabilities and new classes of vulnerabilities and attacks they surface.
Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops and technical deep dives.