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Anthropic · Boston, MA · posted 33 days ago
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| Employer | Anthropic |
|---|---|
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Field | Technology › Software engineering |
| Level | not stated |
| Source category | Security |
| Posted | 2026-10-07 (33 days ago) |
| Work arrangement | A remote or flexible location is listed |
| Pay | Not published in the source listing |
Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
The Endpoint team (Client Platform Engineering) treats Anthropic's device fleet as a platform we build and run. We run our own MDM as a production service and manage every piece of device configuration as code. Policies, configuration profiles, queries, remediation scripts, and software all ship through pull requests, CI, a staging environment, and a canary group before they reach the fleet. The fleet is mostly macOS, plus a small number of Linux machines and a growing mobile footprint.
You'll own that platform end to end: the infrastructure underneath the MDM, the configuration on top of it, the patching and software pipelines that keep thousands of devices patched and secure, and the telemetry that tells us what is actually true on every device. You'll also build automation that cuts down on manual operational work. You'll work with Security teams on hardening, compliance controls, and detection and response, and with developer and infrastructure teams to make sure those controls don't get in the way of their work. Your work will let us base access decisions on whether a device can be trusted.
We value people who double check a compliance report before they believe it. The team is deliberately lean and runs with high autonomy. You'll help define the endpoint roadmap, make architecture decisions, and own the platform every Anthropic employee's work runs on. You'll also help us meet the security standards our Responsible Scaling Policy requires as models advance.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:$285,000—$325,000 USDMinimum 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
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.
Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Boston has 666,442 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 9.5% of the population of Massachusetts. It covers 48 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 13,786 people per square mile. The median age is 33.3, 17% younger than the state median (33.3 against 40.0).
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The Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metropolitan area has 2,703,890 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $66,620 a year, 31% above the national median ($66,620 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (265,830 jobs, median $56,580); management (254,700 jobs, median $166,580); business and financial operations (242,960 jobs, median $102,660). The area is most specialised in life, physical, and social science (2.6 times) and architecture and engineering (1.4 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($166,580) and legal ($135,160). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Suffolk County was 4.2%. 69.9% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Suffolk County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.
Among workers, 32.9% drive alone, 22.6% use public transit, 13.4% walk, 21.3% work from home. 22.0% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, about the same as the state average (22.0% against 21.5%).
54.9% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 16% above the state share (54.9% against 47.3%). 27.8% of residents were born outside the United States, 54% above the state share (27.8% against 18.1%). The poverty rate is 16.6%, 65% above the state rate (16.6% against 10.0%).
The warmest month is Jul, averaging 72°F (22.4°C), and the coolest is Jan at 26°F (-3.5°C). About 1,206 mm (47 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Oct is the wettest month (123 mm) and Jan the driest (80 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.
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| Place ⇅ | Distance from the job city ⇅ | Median rent ⇅ | Median home value ⇅ | Median household income ⇅ | Commute 45+ min ⇅ | Rent as % of occupation pay ⇅ | Open jobs there ⇅ |
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| Boston, MA | 0 mi | $2,147 | $731,700 | $97,344 | 22.0% | n/a | Jobs |
| Winthrop Town, MA | 4 mi | $2,064 | $649,600 | $116,167 | 31.2% | n/a | — |
| Chelsea, MA | 4 mi | $1,956 | $493,500 | $72,179 | 28.1% | n/a | — |
| Everett, MA | 5 mi | $2,076 | $610,000 | $85,218 | 31.6% | n/a | — |
| Quincy, MA | 5 mi | $2,118 | $618,500 | $98,882 | 33.4% | n/a | — |
| Somerville, MA | 6 mi | $2,517 | $911,300 | $132,572 | 20.9% | n/a | Jobs |
| Cambridge, MA | 6 mi | $2,787 | $1,092,100 | $130,748 | 13.3% | n/a | Jobs |
| Revere, MA | 6 mi | $2,076 | $597,400 | $86,969 | 30.0% | n/a | — |
| Brookline, MA | 6 mi | $2,835 | $1,246,800 | $142,101 | 14.7% | n/a | — |
| Malden, MA | 7 mi | $2,204 | $633,500 | $100,606 | 30.2% | n/a | — |
| Milton, MA | 7 mi | $1,474 | $933,200 | $188,529 | 28.4% | n/a | — |
| Medford, MA | 7 mi | $2,509 | $755,500 | $129,540 | 22.0% | n/a | — |
| Melrose, MA | 8 mi | $1,970 | $822,900 | $133,953 | 34.0% | n/a | — |
| Saugus, MA | 9 mi | $2,241 | $603,400 | $101,539 | 19.7% | n/a | — |
| Belmont, MA | 9 mi | $2,527 | $1,159,000 | $183,137 | 19.2% | n/a | — |
| Braintree Town, MA | 9 mi | $2,024 | $656,800 | $122,214 | 28.9% | n/a | — |
| Arlington, MA | 9 mi | $2,082 | $933,800 | $150,701 | 27.3% | n/a | — |
| Newton, MA | 10 mi | $2,370 | $1,264,900 | $190,304 | 17.0% | n/a | — |
| Lynn, MA | 10 mi | $1,722 | $510,100 | $75,043 | 23.6% | n/a | — |
| Weymouth Town, MA | 10 mi | $1,941 | $552,100 | $102,714 | 32.9% | n/a | — |
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How far Boston, MA is from the 20 largest US cities, in straight-line miles (not driving distance). Click a column to sort.
| From ⇅ | Straight-line distance (miles) ⇅ | Population of that city ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| New York, NY | 190 mi | 8,483,844 |
| Philadelphia, PA | 268 mi | 1,579,706 |
| Columbus, OH | 643 mi | 914,802 |
| Charlotte, NC | 722 mi | 903,844 |
| Indianapolis, IN | 807 mi | 885,860 |
| Chicago, IL | 854 mi | 2,711,226 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1,017 mi | 977,670 |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,494 mi | 697,125 |
| Dallas, TX | 1,549 mi | 1,307,930 |
| Fort Worth, TX | 1,578 mi | 963,194 |
| Houston, TX | 1,605 mi | 2,328,253 |
| Austin, TX | 1,695 mi | 979,539 |
| Denver, CO | 1,762 mi | 718,877 |
| San Antonio, TX | 1,766 mi | 1,479,835 |
| Phoenix, AZ | 2,294 mi | 1,642,323 |
| Seattle, WA | 2,489 mi | 754,195 |
| San Diego, CA | 2,576 mi | 1,389,526 |
| Los Angeles, CA | 2,603 mi | 3,857,263 |
| San Jose, CA | 2,678 mi | 990,138 |
| San Francisco, CA | 2,727 mi | 830,235 |
| City ⇅ | Straight-line distance ⇅ | Open jobs ⇅ |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge, MA | 6 mi | 109 |
| Waltham, MA | 12 mi | 19 |
| Framingham, MA | 21 mi | 6 |
| Andover, MA | 23 mi | 8 |
| Barrington, RI | 44 mi | 1 |
| Amherst, MA | 77 mi | 14 |
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