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10 Anthropic security engineers
These ten current and former Anthropic security engineers have held security engineering and application security roles at the company. A reader can learn what security engineering work at Anthropic involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Akila S.
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff (Manager) · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff (Manager) at Anthropic since 2023, responsible for a few security engineering teams that harden infrastructure, lock down the software supply chain and build secure tooling for staff. Previous roles include Head of Security, Trust and Privacy Engineering at Notion (2022–2023).
Angie Lal
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since March 2023, in the engineering department, where the profile describes working on all things security. Previous roles include Engineering Manager at Stripe (2020–2022) and Security Engineer at Stripe (2015–2020).
Frank Olbricht
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer · Anthropic
Security Engineer at Anthropic since April 2026, in the engineering department and based in Switzerland. Previous roles include Security Engineer at Stripe (2020–2026) and Lead Software QA Engineer at Cisco (2014–2020). The profile also lists Snr QA Engineer at Symantec (2011–2014).
Jenn Newton
LinkedInExperience: Application Security · Anthropic
Works in Application Security at Anthropic since November 2024. Previous roles include Staff Application Security Engineer at Clio (2023–2024), Manager, Application Security at Shopify (2021–2023) and Senior Application Security Engineer at Shopify (2019–2021).
Joel Weinberger
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since October 2025, working on developer security. Previous roles include Head of Security Engineering at Lightspark (2024–2025) and Security Engineering Manager and Technical Lead at Snap Inc. (2019–2024). The profile also lists Security Engineer at Snap Inc. (2017–2018).
Lynx Lean
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff - Security · Anthropic
Held the Member of Technical Staff - Security role at Anthropic from December 2023 to August 2024, and has been Member of Technical Staff - Safeguards at Anthropic since 2024. Previous roles include Manager TPM at Lyft (2022–2023) and Staff Technical Program Manager, Security & Privacy at Lyft (2020–2022).
Marius Fleischer
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since June 2026, working at the intersection of offensive security and AI. Previous roles include Security Engineer at NVIDIA (2024–2026) and Graduate Student Researcher at UC Santa Barbara (2021–2024). The profile also lists Research Assistant at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2020–2021).
Mohamad El'Hajj
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since July 2025; the profile headline describes the role as Tech Lead, AI Security at Anthropic. Previous roles include Senior Software Engineer at Google (2022–2025) and Senior Software Engineer at VGS (2021–2022).
Paul Crowley
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since May 2025, in the engineering department, with the profile listing inference security projects and security through attestation. Previous roles include Staff Software Engineer at Google (2019–2025) and Senior Software Engineer at Google (2016–2019).
Pedro Esteves
LinkedInExperience: Security Engineer · Anthropic
Security Engineer at Anthropic since May 2026. Previous roles include Security Engineer at Snap Inc. (2022–2026) and Cyber Security Analyst roles at Swiss Re (2020–2022) and UBS (2019–2020). The profile also lists Security Engineer at FCCN (2018–2019) and a location in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Match the person's security specialty to your question, since application security, developer security, offensive security and security team management each cover different problems. Consider how recently each person joined and where they worked before, since that shapes the comparisons they can draw.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does securing an AI lab differ from securing a typical software company?
- 02Which security controls do you prioritize for engineers who work with sensitive model assets?
- 03How do you decide where to use AI tools in your own security work?
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