Job brief: Autonomous Systems Security Engineer

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• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-07.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $320,000 to $405,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA · San Francisco, CA
• Posted: 2026-10-27

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Not stated. The posting does not state a level or years of experience.

Must have

• Remote pilot certification (for example FAA Part 107) and experience flying beyond visual line of sight under a waiver or exemption
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Conditions

• You'll work with the rest of DCSE, including its physical security systems engineers and the engineers on its security monitoring platform, with Anthropic's data center operations…
• The role is based in San Francisco, with remote applicants in the US considered, and involves regular travel to data center sites, which are critical infrastructure.
• 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 op…
• 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.

Main duties

• Autonomous security and inspection systems: own the drones, ground robots and other autonomous platforms for perimeter patrol, incident response and infrastr…
• Tools, automation and AI agents: build the integrations that carry detections, tracks, telemetry and fleet health into the team's security monitoring platfor…
• 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: sensor sele…
• Security of site automation: engineer the controls on automated vehicles, robots and similar machines that move hardware or work inside secure areas: identit…
• Regulatory and site constraints: establish what we may sense, fly, drive, record and retain at each site, partner-operated sites included, under the aviation…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in San Francisco, CA: $196k a year (681 listings, 41 employers). This listing is 85% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 546 open listings, 53% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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