Security GRC Specialist

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 Team

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 todays most novel and valuable asset types we must build a new kind of compliance program assuring the safety of artificial intelligence capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and lead engagements with independent assessors to earn security and privacy certifications and attestations important to Anthropic customers and enterprise partnerships and to meet regulatory obligations.
• Understand how Anthropics 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 audit management processes and documentation systems that will support future expansion to additional geographies and compliance frameworks
• Write update and enact policies capturing security privacy and AI safety requirements.
• Maintain and enhance Anthropics system of security controls through audit readiness recordkeeping and cross-functional communication

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 8 years of progressive experience in audit and compliance roles with direct ownership of certification/attestation projects
• Have worked in cloud-native environments and understand security and privacy considerations for multi-cloud architectures
• Can translate complex compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Have built 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 youll 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

Strong candidates may also:

• Have worked in AI/ML companies and understand unique security considerations for model development and deployment
• 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)

Candidates need not have:

• Done everything on this list beforewe value learning agility and willingness to tackle novel compliance challenges in the AI space

Deadline to apply:None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 arent 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.

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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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 were 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. Were 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 aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process