Security Risk & Compliance, Data Centers & Compute

Anthropic; United States; Hybrid; USD 270,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an senior security compliance leader to oversee audit, regulatory, and privacy programs across multi-cloud environments. You will translate complex controls into actionable workstreams for technical and non-technical teams, coordinate with assessors for certifications, and maintain a robust system of policies and controls to meet regulatory obligations.

This role emphasizes building scalable processes, guiding cross-functional teams, and educating stakeholders on evolving

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive audit and compliance experience.
• Experience with cloud-native environments and multi-cloud security.
• Translate complex compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Integrated with controls frameworks or GRC systems at scale.
• Write clear security and privacy documentation for external and internal audiences.
• Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments and build processes from scratch.
• Organize time-bounded task management across a diverse organization.
• Educate the organization on new compliance requirements and auditors on current security practices.

Responsibilities

• Understand how security and privacy frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, SOC 2) are implemented.
• Build scalable data center and hyperscaler processes and documentation systems for future expansion.
• Assess and mitigate security and operational risks; implement corrective actions; manage vendor compliance.
• Coordinate engagements with independent assessors to earn security certifications and attestations.
• Write, update and enact policies capturing security, privacy, and AI safety requirements.
• Maintain and enhance security controls through audit readiness, recordkeeping, and cross-functional communication.

Skills

Audit & Compliance

Cloud Security

Regulatory Frameworks

GRC Systems

Security Documentation

Stakeholder Education

Cross-Functional Leadership

Ambiguity Tolerance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GRC platforms

Regulatory reporting tools

Job description

About Anthropic

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 part of the Anthropic security department, the compliance team owns understanding security and AI safety expectations, as established by regulators, customers and (nascent) industry norms (which we also seek to influence). The compliance team uses this understanding to provide direction to internal partners on the priorities of security and safety requirements they must meet. The compliance team assures regulators and customers that those expectations are met by earning security credentials and responding to direct inquiry about Anthropics security program from auditors, customers and partners.

This opportunity is unique, as we work to secure today’s most novel and valuable asset types, we must build a new kind of compliance program, assuring the safety of artificial intelligence capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand how Anthropic's security and privacy capabilities across major cloud platforms implement common frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, ISO 27701, CSA CCM, and SOC 2).
• Build scalable data center and hyperscaler processes and documentation systems that will support future expansion to additional geographies and compliance frameworks.
• Assess and mitigate security and operational risks, implementing corrective actions, and managing vendor compliance.
• Coordinate engagements with independent assessors to earn security and privacy certifications and attestations important to Anthropic customers and enterprise partnerships, and to meet regulatory obligations.
• Write, update and enact policies capturing security, privacy, and AI safety requirements.
• Maintain and enhance Anthropic's system of security controls through audit readiness, recordkeeping, and cross-functional communication.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have 8+ years of progressive experience in audit and compliance roles, with direct ownership of certification/attestation or security compliance implementation projects
• Have worked in cloud-native environments and understand security and privacy considerations for multi-cloud and hybrid architectures
• Can translate complex compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Have integrated with common controls frameworks or GRC systems that scaled with organizational growth
• Write clear and useful security and privacy documentation for both external and internal audiences.
• Thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments where you'll need to build processes from scratch
• Are comfortable organizing time-bounded task management of delegated work streams across a diverse organization
• Are energized by being the subject matter expert who educates the organization on new compliance requirements and auditors on current security practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Have worked in AI/ML companies and understand unique security considerations for model development and deployment
• Have worked with cloud companies and understand cloud security controls and physical security requirements
• Bring experience from high-growth technology companies managing rapid compliance expansion
• Have some experience implementing automated enforcement of security controls (i.e., compliance as code)
• Possess relevant certifications (CISA, CRISC, CISM, CISSP, or ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer)

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

$270,000—$345,000 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.

We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different

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.

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.