Security Risk & Compliance, HIPAA

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 that 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 demonstrates adherence to security expectations through credential attainment the establishment of assurance and oversight mechanisms and direct engagement with auditors customers and partners.

This opportunity is unique. Anthropic is expanding HIPAA coverage across its product portfolio including Claude Code the Claude Developer Platform and Claude Cowork and we need to build the compliance infrastructure to match that expansion. We are looking for someone to own HIPAA compliance operations end-to-end not just advise on it.

Responsibilities:

• Operate Anthropics HIPAA compliance review program executing on HIPAA obligations across the product portfolio.
• Run a dedicated HIPAA review track in parallel with the Product Security Review (PSR) process applying compliance checklist to every in-scope change and recording a complete auditable disposition before release.
• Build and maintain change monitoring mechanisms to catch HIPAA-relevant changes including default setting changes and incremental updates.
• Partner with product and engineering teams upstream to ensure HIPAA considerations are built into first releases rather than addressed as post-launch remediations.
• Assess and document PHI data flows infrastructure boundaries and control coverage across Anthropics cloud-native product environments.
• Write update and enact HIPAA policies checklists deployment guides and audit evidence packages.
• Manage Business Associate Agreement (BAA) obligations and coordinate with legal and external counsel on PHI determination questions and emerging regulatory requirements.
• Contribute to Anthropics broader compliance program including adjacent frameworks (SOC 2 ISO 27001 NIST 800-53) where they intersect with HIPAA obligations.

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 3 years of progressive experience in compliance roles including direct ownership of a HIPAA compliance program at a technology company
• Have evaluated PHI data flows and infrastructure boundaries in cloud-native environments (AWS GCP or Azure) and can assess HIPAA exposure without always needing to escalate to legal
• Have designed and operated a compliance review mechanism integrated into a product development or release process
• Can translate HIPAA technical compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for engineering and product teams
• Deliver clear precise compliance documentation policies checklists audit evidence deployment guides for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thrive in fast-paced ambiguous environments where youre expected to build processes from scratch and keep them working under rapid product change
• Are energized by being the organizational expert who educates and influences rather than only advises

Strong candidates may also:

• Have worked in AI/ML or developer-platform companies and understand the unique challenges of PHI exposure in model inference and API environments
• Have HITRUST CSF experience or experience mapping HIPAA requirements to HITRUST controls
• Bring experience from high-growth technology companies where compliance programs had to scale alongside rapid product expansion
• Have implemented or significantly contributed to compliance automation or GRC tooling integrations
• Possess relevant certifications (CHPC HCISPP CISA CISM CISSP or equivalent)

Candidates need not have:

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

Deadline to Apply:None applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelors 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 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