Data Center Physical Security Lead

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 Role

You will own the physical security posture of all Anthropic-spec data centers. Not managing guards and camerasarchitecting defense-in-depth systems that scale from ground break through production across multiple facilities against sophisticated and well-resourced adversaries.

Our version controlled and AI assisted library act as one source of truth driving consistent outputs and security that enables velocity rather than blocking it. Your job is to make it operational in steel concrete and sustained excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Physical Security Program Ownership- Define and execute the end-to-end physical security roadmap for all Anthropic data centers globally.
• Design and Engineering- Ensure integrated physical security systems (access control video surveillance intrusion detection perimeter security) that work across different types of facilities. Balance security requirements against operational efficiency and construction timelines.
• Internal Partnership - Collaborate with Infrastructure Operations and Facilities teams to embed security into the data center lifecycle from construction gates to steady-state operations.
• Risk and Threat Modeling - Conduct risk assessments and threat modeling for greenfield and brownfield projects. Feed operational learnings back into the Controls framework.
• Compliance and Validation - Partner with Compliance and Legal to ensure physical security systems meet relevant standardsand customer requirements.
• Incident Response - Develop physical security incident response protocols with partners. When something happens the team knows exactly what to do.
• Metrics and Accountability - Define KPIs that measure actual security posture system effectiveness vendor performance incident metrics coverage gaps.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have worked with construction teams to integrate security into the build process
• Can translate threat models into specific measurable requirements
• Have managed security programs across multiple facilities and geographies simultaneously
• Know how to hold vendors accountable without destroying relationships
• Can communicate security requirements to engineers executives lawyers and construction managers and get buy-in from all of them
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can make decisions with incomplete information
• Are energized by building from the ground up

Strong candidates may have:

• 10 years designing deploying and managing physical security for high-value compute infrastructure (data centers critical infrastructure sensitive facilities)
• Hold relevant certifications (PSP CPP CISSP CISM)

Deadline to apply: None applications will be received 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.

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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