Anthropic
Autonomous Systems Security Engineer
$320K–$405K
Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) +2 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Remote-Friendly (Travel Required)
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; a field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Owns autonomous security, inspection, and detection systems across Anthropic-operated and partner data center sites, from platform integration and controls through ongoing operations.
What you'll do
- Select, integrate, operate, and maintain drones, robots, automated vehicles, and their data paths for patrol, response, and inspection.
- Build security-monitoring integrations and tools or AI agents for detection triage, fleet health monitoring, and evidence assembly.
- Define and implement sensing, automation controls, regulatory requirements, health monitoring, and vendor acceptance processes for each site.
What they ask for
- Have field-engineered autonomous or sensing systems, integrated or secured them for an operation, and verified performance against real targets or runs.
- Have integrated third-party systems into a durable platform; read and review code, design security-tooling data systems, and build automation using Git and code review.
- Have hands-on experience in data centers, critical infrastructure, or a large hardware fleet.
- Have designed within regulatory or safety constraints and owned a domain end to end with vendors, operators, partners, and authorities.
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-UAS detection, industrial or data-center fleets, securing robotic or operational technology, physical security operations, or AI agents that replace recurring manual work.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Git, Claude
AI focus
Build and use AI agents to triage detections, check fleet health, assemble evidence, and replace recurring manual work; use Claude in the engineering workflow.
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