Head of Corporate Engineering and IT Security

Anthropic is seeking an experienced engineering leader to oversee our corporate engineering and IT functions in a high‑security environment as we continue to scale. As our Head of Corporate Engineering, you will own the strategy and execution of the software engineering of internal systems, IT infrastructure, and technical integrations to enable the security of Anthropic and smooth business operations.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and mentor excellent software, systems, and reliability engineering and IT talent and promote best practices in software engineering, systems administration, and operations.
• Design and implement security policies in service of Anthropic's mission to deploy AI securely.
• Develop and drive the strategic vision for Anthropic's IT environment and corporate engineering needs.
• Lead a high‑performing engineering team responsible for managing infrastructure, access, security, communications, collaboration tools, business applications, data integrations, and workflows.
• Partner with departmental leaders across the company to understand their systems and integration needs and ensure optimal solutions.
• Oversee complex integrations across our stack— from infrastructure to applications—to create seamless systems.
• Continuously monitor health of infrastructure and applications, optimize performance, and develop capacity plans.
• Maintain 99.9% uptime and high‑availability of critical systems.
• Ensure all IT solutions meet security and compliance requirements.
• Manage relationships with key vendors and negotiate contracts while controlling costs through prudent decision making.

Qualifications

• Have 15+ years managing software or security engineering teams and enterprise IT environments.
• Have experience earlier in your career as a software engineer or security engineer.
• Have experience in an executive role.
• Have expertise overseeing complex infrastructure and application stacks, integrations and data pipelines.
• Have experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Possess leadership skills to collaborate, influence and drive consensus across the organization.

Additional Desired Qualities

• Have excellent communication, presentation and relationship‑building skills.
• Are a creative problem‑solver able to balance business needs with system constraints.
• Can manage budgets and exercise sound judgment to optimize value.
• Are obsessed with system stability, scalability, efficiency and security.
• Have experience scaling from a small to large‑scale company.

Salary

The expected salary range for this position is $560,000 USD.

Location and Logistics

Location‑based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in our office at least 25% of the time.

Visa Sponsorship

We sponsor visas. However, we may not be able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. If we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States and have an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Benefits

US Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
• 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4–6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
• Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
• Fertility benefits via Carrot.
• Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
• Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.

UK Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
• Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4–6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
• Health cash plan.
• Life insurance and income protection.
• Daily lunches and snacks in our office.