Engineering Manager, Agent Security Partnerships

Anthropic•Seattle, WA

3h•$405,000 - $485,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead its Agent Security Partnerships team. The team pairs security engineers with Anthropic teams that build Claude, build agents, or rely on agents. It threat-models plans with partner teams and develops controls to help agents operate safely; successful controls may be shared across teams or incorporated into products. The position is primarily a people leadership role, with emphasis on security judgment and leading security engineering teams. The manager will guide the team through changing agent capabilities, high-stakes decisions under uncertainty, growing demand, and disagreements with partner teams.

Requirements

Excellent people management skills, including experience hiring, developing, and managing senior and staff engineers, growing engineers into staff or lead roles, and maintaining delivery through changing priorities.
Deep security management experience, including managing security engineering teams and advising executives on risk and tradeoffs.
Strong written and oral communication skills, including explaining complex tradeoffs clearly to executives and engineers.
Resilience, emotional awareness, low ego, and high empathy.
Experience leading large migrations and highly cross-functional work.
Willingness to examine details, make tie-breaking decisions in complex situations without clear answers, and stand by those decisions.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Hire, mentor, and develop senior and staff security engineers, raising the team's bar as it scales.
Set the team's investment strategy, including which teams receive embedded engineers and for how long as demand grows.
Support the team in making high-stakes safety and security decisions under uncertainty and tight timelines.
Balance long-term investment in shared security controls with partner teams' immediate needs.
Deliver large security migrations across Anthropic.
Navigate difficult tradeoffs with partner teams in ways that build trust and understanding.