Autonomous Systems Security Engineer

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

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 Position

We are seeking an Autonomous Systems Security Engineer to join our team. You'll be responsible for securing our autonomous systems and infrastructure, ensuring the safety and integrity of our operations.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous security and inspection systems: Own the drones, ground robots, and other autonomous platforms for perimeter patrol, incident response, and infrastructure inspection. This includes platform selection, operating model, operator qualification, maintenance, and the data path from machine to analyst.
• Tools, automation, and AI agents: Build the integrations that carry detections, tracks, telemetry, and fleet health into our security monitoring platform. Develop tools and agents that triage detections, check fleet health, and assemble evidence.
• Detection of uncrewed systems: Engineer the sensing that tells us what is flying over or operating near a site, what it is, and who needs to know. This includes sensor selection and evaluation against live targets, per-site coverage, classification, false-alarm handling, and the playbook from first detection to handoff, with evidence retained.
• Security of site automation: Engineer the controls on automated vehicles, robots, and similar machines that move hardware or work inside secure areas. This includes identity and access, network isolation, what they may record and where it goes, fail-secure behavior, their place in the chain of custody, and acceptance before they enter a site.
• Regulatory and site constraints: Establish what we may sense, fly, drive, record, and retain at each site, partner-operated sites included, under the aviation, spectrum, privacy, and safety rules that apply there. Coordinate with local authorities to set up waivers and approvals before they are needed.
• Health monitoring: Define and test heartbeats, loss-of-coverage, and lost-link alarms and fail-secure behavior, so a silent sensor or machine shows as a fault, not a quiet day.
• Vendor requirements and acceptance: Write the requirements, evaluate against live flights and runs, and hold vendors to what they ship.

Requirements

• Have engineered autonomous or sensing systems in the field (drones, ground robots, automated vehicles, or RF, radar, or optical detection sensors): selected, integrated, or secured them for an operation other people relied on, and verified what they actually do against real targets or runs rather than a datasheet.
• Have integrated systems you did not build (vendor APIs, SDKs, appliances, machine and sensor telemetry) into a platform that outlives any one of them.
• Read and review code, design the data systems behind security tooling, and build automation (often with AI coding agents) using Git and code review.
• Have done this work hands-on for data centers, critical infrastructure, or a large hardware fleet.
• Have designed inside a regulatory or safety constraint (aviation, spectrum, privacy, machine safety, or similar) and can show the decision it drove.
• Own a domain end to end: set the approach, carry it through with vendors, site operators, partners, and authorities, and run it as something people depend on every day.

Nice to Have

• Remote pilot certification (for example FAA Part 107) and experience flying beyond visual line of sight under a waiver or exemption.
• Experience with counter-drone (counter-UAS) detection, airspace surveillance, or air traffic data systems.
• Experience running a robot, drone, or automated-vehicle fleet in an industrial, logistics, or data center setting: fleet management, mission planning, safety cases.
• Experience securing embedded, operational technology, or robotic systems: device identity, network segmentation, update control, logging.
• Experience with physical security operations at large sites, with law enforcement or aviation authorities, or at sites you did not fully control: cloud, colocation, or GPU cloud operators.
• Have built AI agents or automation that replaced recurring manual work.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD annually.
• 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.

About the Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

Apply for this job

If you are interested in building your career at Anthropic, please submit your application through our website. 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.