Applied AI Security Architect - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 380,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation policy

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited, a leader in reliable AI, seeks an Applied AI Security Architect to guide security, compliance, and data architecture for enterprise customers. You will work with CISOs, security architects, and compliance officers to design Claude deployment options that meet HIPAA, GxP, HITECH, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR and other requirements.

You will lead security architecture discussions, map regulatory needs to cloud deployment patterns (AWS/Azure/GCP), and create reusable reference

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise security, cloud architecture, or pre-sales in regulated industries.
• Strong experience with HIPAA, GxP, HITECH, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR or equivalent.
• Proven ability to engage CISOs and security teams at large enterprises.
• Deep knowledge of cloud security, identity/access management, encryption, and audit practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements, addressing Claude's architecture and deployment models.
• Collaborate with CISOs and compliance teams to meet regulatory standards in healthcare and life sciences.
• Lead security architecture deep-dives including network, data residency, API security, and audit logging.
• Support vendor assessments and due diligence with technical documentation and guidance.
• Coordinate with GTM and Applied AI teams to align security strategy from first contact to deployment.
• Partner with product/engineering to feedback security requirements and influence roadmap.
• Develop security-focused collateral, reference architectures, and best practices for regulated industries.
• Create enablement content for GTM and Applied AI teams to educate on key security needs.
• Travel to customer sites for workshops and architecture reviews.

Skills

Enterprise security

Cloud architecture

Technical pre-sales

Regulated industries

CISO engagement

Regulatory compliance

AWS/Azure/GCP

RBAC/ID management

Security architecture

Job description

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.

About The Role

As an Applied AI Security Architect, you will serve as Anthropic's trusted security expert for our most demanding enterprise customers. You'll engage directly with CISOs, security architects, compliance officers, and technical leaders at some of the largest healthcare and life sciences organizations to address their most critical questions about deploying Claude safely and securely.

This is a pre-sales technical role focused on security, compliance, networking, and data architecture. Your job is to walk into a room full of security professionals and demonstrate deep expertise in enterprise security, regulatory compliance, and data protection. You'll help customers understand Claude's security architecture, data handling practices, and deployment options, and partner with them to design solutions that meet their specific regulatory and organizational requirements.

You’ll bring significant experience in enterprise security, cloud architecture, and technical pre‑sales within regulated industries. Whether you've been a Security Architect, Solutions Architect, Field CTO, or senior pre‑sales engineer at a cloud or security vendor, what matters is that you understand how large institutions evaluate and adopt technology, especially in healthcare and life sciences, and can speak credibly to their security and compliance concerns.

We are looking for someone excited to help define how enterprises should think about security and compliance in the age of AI. How do MCP, autonomous agents, and RBAC work together? If working at the intersection of AI adoption and regulated industries excites you, this is the role for you.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert during customer engagements, addressing technical questions about Claude's architecture, data flows, encryption, access controls, and deployment models.
• Partner with CISOs, security architects, and compliance teams at healthcare and life sciences organizations to understand their security requirements and design solutions that meet regulatory standards (HIPAA, GxP, HITECH, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR, federal mandates, etc)
• Lead technical deep-dives on network architecture, data residency, API security, authentication/authorization, audit logging, and integration patterns for regulated environments.
• Support enterprise security reviews, vendor assessments, and due diligence processes by providing detailed technical documentation and expert guidance.
• Collaborate with GTM and Applied AI teams before and after customer engagements to align on strategy, prepare for security discussions, and ensure continuity from initial conversations through deployment.
• Partner closely with Anthropic’s product and engineering teams to deeply understand Claude's security capabilities, provide real‑time customer feedback on feature gaps and priorities, help assess technical feasibility of customer‑specific security requirements, and influence roadmap priorities.
• Develop and maintain security-focused collateral, reference architectures, and best practices documentation for regulated industries.
• Lead enablement and create content for GTM and Applied AI Teams that helps them inform customers upstream about key security requirements and considerations.
• Travel regularly to customer sites for security workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic account meetings.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise security, cloud architecture, or technical pre‑sales, with significant exposure to regulated industries (healthcare and life sciences).
• Deep technical knowledge of enterprise security concepts: network security, identity and access management, encryption (at rest and in transit), API security, and audit/logging requirements.
• Experience navigating compliance frameworks relevant to healthcare and life sciences organizations (HIPAA, GxP, HITECH, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and GDPR).
• A track record of engaging with CISOs, security teams, and compliance officers at large enterprises.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and deployment models (AWS, Azure, GCP), including VPCs, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivity.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex security topics clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity and move fast in a rapidly evolving market.
• A collaborative mindset: sales at Anthropic is a team sport.
• Excitement about AI's potential to transform highly regulated industries, and a genuine desire to help customers adopt it safely and responsibly.

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

$315,000—$380,000 USD

Logistics

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

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.

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.

Come work with us!

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.