# Technical Recruiter, Security

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Recruiting
**Salary:** $240k – $295k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Full Lifecycle Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Security Recruiting, Sourcing Passive Candidates, Interview Process Design, Ats (Greenhouse), Market Mapping, Llm Tools For Recruiting
**Posted:** 2026-07-14

> Technical Recruiter for Anthropic's Security organization. Own full-cycle recruiting for specialized security roles (appsec, detection, compliance, etc.), build passive pipelines, develop domain fluency to evaluate technical talent, refine interview processes, and advise leaders with market insights. Requires deep recruiting experience in security or infrastructure engineering.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Own full lifecycle recruiting for a portfolio of roles across the Security organization, from intake through offer and close.
- Run structured intakes with security hiring managers, translating ambiguous needs into scoped requirements, calibrated bars, and search strategies.
- Build and maintain pipelines of specialized security talent, with an emphasis on passive candidates.
- Refine security interview loops, take-home assignments, and scorecards alongside hiring managers, recruiting counterparts, and Recruiting Operations.
- Develop genuine domain fluency to hold credible conversations with detection engineers, cryptographers, and compliance leads.
- Advise hiring managers with market data and candid calibration feedback; influence decisions through credibility.
- Partner with Compensation, People Partners, and Mobility to structure equitable offers and close candidates.
- Handle sensitive role and candidate information with discretion, including confidential searches.

## Minimum Qualifications
- Deep full lifecycle recruiting experience, with substantial time supporting security, infrastructure, or comparably technical engineering organizations.
- Ability to hold substantive technical conversations about security domains (application security, cloud/infrastructure security, detection and response, identity, compliance) and evaluate technical qualifications beyond keywords.
- Proficiency with an ATS like Greenhouse and modern sourcing tools.
- Experience partnering with hiring managers on intake, bar calibration, and interview loop design.
- Sound independent judgment on candidate quality; ability to redirect hiring managers from pedigree/credential proxies to underlying competencies.
- Genuine interest in Anthropic's mission and the role of a strong security function.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience recruiting at a high-growth technology, AI, or machine learning company.
- Working knowledge of the security credential landscape and judgment on where credentials add signal.
- Experience hiring for engineering, incident response, threat intelligence, insider risk, or physical security.
- Experience improving recruiting processes, market maps, or interview architecture.
- Comfort using LLMs to accelerate sourcing, research, and market mapping.

## Compensation & Logistics
- Annual compensation: $240,000–$295,000 USD.
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Location-based hybrid policy: Expect staff in office at least 25% of the time.
- We sponsor visas where possible.

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