Staff / Senior Data Center Security Engineer

AlphaSense

United States

Remote

USD 320,000 - 405,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

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Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced security engineer to own end-to-end security across one or more physical security domains at partner-operated and Anthropic-operated sites. You will design controls, build tooling, and embed automated verification throughout the security lifecycle.

You will work with data center operations, legal, compliance and procurement teams, developing code-based requirements, and maintaining evidence and chain of custody. Some travel to data centers is expected.

Qualifications

Engineered a security control domain end to end: design, implement and verify controls.
Read and review code; design data systems behind security tooling; build automation using Git and reviews.
Hands-on security work in data centers or critical infrastructure with hardware fleets.
Applied control frameworks (e.g., NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, SOC 2) to real systems.

Responsibilities

Own one or more physical security domains at partner-operated and Anthropic-operated sites.
Build internal tools, automation and agents for evidence collection, access reviews and custody tracking.
Perform security reviews for new sites, leases and vendors; define security terms and exhibits.
Write requirements and procedures as code; ensure testability and traceability.
Assess sites and suppliers against requirements; document deviations and remediate gaps.
Maintain continuous compliance evidence linked to frameworks; keep evidence current.
Lead security event response with operations teams and site operators.

Skills

Security engineering end-to-end

Code review & automation

Git

Data center security

NIST SP 800-53

SOC 2

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Git

Automation tools

AI agents

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

Claude is trained and served on hardware in data centers Anthropic operates and in sites partners build and run for us. DCSE secures that footprint: the sites, the hardware moving through them, and the people and vendors who touch it. You'll be the engineer for one or more security domains end to end: design the controls, build the systems that enforce and verify them, and set the technical standard the rest of the team and our partners build to. The engineering is in the controls and the tooling that proves them. The goal is security that runs itself: requirements kept as code and checked automatically, evidence, chain of custody and access continuously verified, and tools and agents in place of manual reviews. We favor simple, standard controls and tools that can be verified over elaborate ones. We use Claude throughout our engineering workflow and expect you to as well. This is a foundational role: you'll shape how our security engineering is built and scaled. The team's physical security systems engineers design and test the site security systems themselves; this role engineers the controls around them and across the domains beyond the facility itself: hardware custody, media, personnel and vendors. You'll work with the rest of DCSE, Anthropic's compute, data center operations, legal, compliance and procurement teams, and directly with data center operators, hardware vendors and logistics providers. The role involves regular travel to data center sites, which are critical infrastructure, and may include on-call for security events at them.

Key responsibilities

Security domains, end to end: own one or more of physical security at partner-operated and Anthropic-operated sites, hardware supply chain and chain of custody, media protection and sanitization, personnel security and site access, third-party and vendor security assessment, and maintenance and contingency controls
Tools, automation and AI agents: build the internal tools, automation and agents the team runs on: evidence collection, access reviews, asset and custody tracking, partner intake. When a process keeps costing people time, you build the tool that retires it
Security review for new sites, leases and vendors: find the gaps in the design, the contract and the operator's procedures, write the security terms and exhibits, and verify the fixes after signing
Requirements and procedures as code: write requirements and procedures that a partner can build to and an assessor can test, kept as code in a version-controlled repository
Site and supplier assessment: assess sites and suppliers against those requirements, on site and from evidence; document deviations and engineer the compensating control where a requirement can't be met as written
Continuous compliance evidence: tie controls to the compliance frameworks we and our partners are assessed against, with evidence always current so an assessment pulls from it directly
Security event response: respond to security events at sites (intrusion alarms, custody breaks, access violations) with operations teams and site operators; write up what happened and fix the control that allowed it

Minimum qualifications

Have engineered a security control domain end to end: designed the controls, built or integrated the systems that enforce them, and verified they work
Read and review code, design the data systems behind security tooling, and build automation (often with AI coding agents) using Git and code review
Have done security work hands-on for data centers, critical infrastructure or a large hardware fleet, in at least one of the domains under Key responsibilities
Have applied a control framework such as NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001 or SOC 2 to real systems and produced the evidence for it
Write requirements a third party can build to and an assessor can test: each states what must be true, how it is verified and what evidence shows it

Preferred qualifications

Experience across several of the domains above rather than one
Experience at sites you did not fully control: cloud, colocation or GPU cloud operators
Experience with federal assessment regimes based on NIST SP 800-53, including supply chain (NIST SP 800-161) and media sanitization (NIST SP 800-88) guidance; have produced evidence an assessor accepted
Have built governance, risk and compliance (GRC) or evidence automation: automated control checks, asset or custody tracking, questionnaire and assessment pipelines, docs-as-code workflows
Have run incident response at physical sites: alarms, investigations, after-action fixes
Have worked in live data halls and on active construction sites, and can follow a method of procedure
Experience redlining contract security language with legal and procurement counterparts
Experience with international sites: per-country personnel screening and staffing restrictions, data residency, and export controls on hardware
Have built AI agents or automation that replaced recurring manual security work

Annual compensation

Annual Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

Minimum education

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

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy

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

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.

Your safety matters

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.

Representation and diversity

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.

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.

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.

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