Technical Recruiter, Security

About the role

You will join a specialized recruiting team focused on hiring talent to protect our infrastructure, models, and personnel. This role requires deep domain expertise to engage effectively with security professionals and translate complex hiring needs into successful search strategies. Key facts

Location: USA

Engagement: Full-time

Salary: $240,000 - $295,000 USD

Team: Security What you'll do

• Manage the full lifecycle of recruiting for security roles, from initial intake to offer negotiation and closing.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define search requirements, calibrate candidate bars, and build effective sourcing strategies.
• Develop and maintain pipelines of passive security talent.
• Partner with Recruiting Operations and hiring managers to design and refine interview loops, take-home assessments, and evaluation scorecards.
• Build domain fluency to conduct credible technical discussions across security disciplines like cryptography, compliance, and detection engineering.
• Provide data-driven market insights to hiring managers to influence hiring decisions.
• Coordinate with Compensation, People Partners, and Mobility teams to structure and finalize equitable offers.
• Maintain strict confidentiality regarding sensitive roles and candidate data. Requirements
• Extensive experience in full lifecycle recruiting, specifically supporting security, infrastructure, or highly technical engineering teams.
• Ability to hold substantive technical conversations regarding cloud security, application security, identity, compliance, or detection and response.
• Proficiency with Greenhouse or similar applicant tracking systems and modern sourcing tools.
• Proven experience partnering with hiring managers on intake and interview architecture.
• Strong independent judgment regarding candidate quality and the ability to manage complex searches autonomously.
• Demonstrated interest in Anthropic's mission and the importance of a security function.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field. Nice to have
• Experience recruiting within high-growth technology, AI, or machine learning environments.
• Practical knowledge of the security credential landscape and the ability to distinguish between meaningful and non-essential certifications.
• Experience hiring for incident response, threat intelligence, insider risk, or physical security.
• Background in building or improving recruiting processes, market maps, and interview architectures.
• Comfort using LLMs to assist with research, sourcing, and market mapping. Skills & tools
• Greenhouse (or equivalent ATS)
• Modern sourcing platforms
• LLM-assisted research
• Security domain fluency (AppSec, Cloud/Infra, D&R, Identity, Compliance) Practical notes
• We expect staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require higher frequency.
• We provide visa sponsorship and retain immigration counsel to assist with the process.
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every listed qualification.
• For your safety, only communicate with @anthropic.com email addresses and verify openings at anthropic.com/careers.
• We offer competitive compensation, equity donation matching, flexible hours, and generous leave policies. About the company Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company was founded in 2021 with the goal of promoting AI safety. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of large language models. Anthropic was established by former members of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei. Daniela Amodei serves as president and Dario Amodei serves as chief executive officer. The company is privately held but plans to go public. It had an estimated valuation of $965 billion in May 2026, making it the most valuable pure-play AI company in the world. Anthropic focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company conducts research across multiple areas including interpretability, alignment, and societal impacts. Its approach emphasizes safety at the frontier of AI capabilities. The public benefit corporation structure allows the company to prioritize long-term safety outcomes alongside commercial objectives. Anthropic works with governments, civil society, and industry partners to promote responsible AI development. The company publishes research papers and shares safety insights with the broader AI community. Its team includes researchers, engineers, and policy experts working on technical and governance challenges. Anthropic aims to ensure that advanced AI systems benefit humanity.