Data Center Security Engineer

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 a member of the Global Data Center Security Engineering team at Anthropic, you will be responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of our most critical infrastructure - the data centers that power our frontier AI systems. In this role you will work closely with teams across all engineering to develop solutions to ensure our data center security posture supports the ambitious mission of Anthropic. Your work will be essential in safeguarding the systems that advance our mission to build safe and beneficial AI. You will be responsible for the development, implementation and validation of key security outcomes with a strong focus on ensuring persistent media (SSDs, HDDs, NVMe, etc) across a wide variety of infrastructure platforms. The ability to design solutions that meet or exceed compliance and regulatory requirements while meeting internal security req requirements will play a critical role in being able to meet the scaling requirements as well as influencing industry.

Responsibilities:

• Establish an encryption at rest storage strategy applicable to production, research and development of our frontier AI models.
• Establish and enforce a strict set of policies to ensure the complete lifecycle for persistent storage media.
• Develop a strategy for key management and rotation, (both regular and emergency) in partnership with infrastructure engineering teams.
• Define the various stages for media (clean, new, sanitized, non-sensitive) and ensure the states have rigorous transition states that are logged and monitored.
• Design and implement chain of custody procedures that are commensurate with the risk.
• Partner with internal and external Red Teams to test initial deployment of the strategy.
• Ensure the protocols supporting the policies are understood by operations teams and not provide undue cost or burden to deployment velocity.
• Ensure the policies, processes and procedures not only meet the existing needs to protect models weights, training data, but are adaptable to onboard new areas of business, e.g. HIPAA compliance
• Develop incident response protocols and business continuity plans for when things don’t go as planned.
• In addition to persistent storage media security you will participate in a broader data center security posture program to ensure alignment.

Define and track KPIs for media security posture, incident response effectiveness, and policy compliance Contribute to relevant industry standards bodies and security consortiums (e.g. IEEE, NIST, OCP).

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience in storage device security.
• Have proven expertise designing and implementing storage security for sensitive compute infrastructure at scale
• Have experience working with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) on data center security requirements and or media requirements.
• Can effectively communicate technical security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Can demonstrate a security first mindset while balancing operational efficiency and business needs.
• Demonstrate strong technical program management skills
• Possess deep knowledge of media security best practices, including cryptographic sanitization and disposal techniques and be able to reason about which one to use when, and why.
• Show strong analytical skills and be adept at gathering data to support stakeholder reporting or in support of new business initiatives.
• The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary:

$405,000—$485,000 USD Logistics

• Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's 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 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. 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 you're interested in this work. 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. 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