Staff / Senior Data Center Security Engineer

Location: Remote-friendly within the United States, with regular travel to data center sites and at least 25% office attendance expected

Annual salary: $320,000–$405,000 USD

Company

AI company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Own security controls across physical security, hardware supply chain and custody, media protection, personnel and site access, vendor security, maintenance, and contingency controls.
• Build internal tools, automation, and AI agents for evidence collection, access reviews, asset and custody tracking, and partner intake.
• Review new data center sites, leases, and vendors; identify gaps, write security terms, and verify remediation.
• Write requirements and procedures as code so partners can implement them and assessors can test them.
• Assess sites and suppliers, maintain continuous compliance evidence, and engineer compensating controls for deviations.
• Respond to site security events with operations teams and operators, document incidents, and improve the controls that failed.

Requirements

• End-to-end experience engineering a security control domain, including control design, enforcement-system integration, and verification.
• Ability to read and review code, design data systems for security tooling, and build automation using Git and code review, often with AI coding agents.
• Hands-on security experience with data centers, critical infrastructure, or a large hardware fleet in at least one relevant security domain.
• Experience applying NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 to real systems and producing assessment evidence.
• Ability to write requirements that third parties can build to and assessors can test, including verification methods and required evidence.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field; required experience varies by internal job level.

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple security domains, cloud, colocation, or GPU cloud operator environments.
• Experience with NIST SP 800-53 federal assessment regimes, including NIST SP 800-161 supply chain and NIST SP 800-88 media sanitization guidance.
• Experience building GRC or evidence automation, including automated control checks, asset or custody tracking, assessment pipelines, and docs-as-code workflows.
• Experience with physical-site incident response, live data halls, active construction sites, and methods of procedure.
• Experience redlining contract security language with legal and procurement teams.
• Experience with international sites, personnel screening and staffing restrictions, data residency, export controls, or AI agents replacing recurring manual security work.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular travel to critical-infrastructure data center sites is required; on-call participation for security events may be included.
• Staff are expected to work from an office at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office attendance.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although successful sponsorship depends on the role and candidate; immigration-lawyer support is provided.
• Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, competitive benefits, optional equity donation matching, and an office for collaboration.
• Collaborative environment focused on high-impact AI research, communication, and diverse perspectives.

Hiring process

• Applicants should review the candidate AI-usage guidance for the application process.
• Legitimate recruiting communications come from Anthropic or identified vetted recruiting agencies; recruiters never request money, fees, or banking information before the first day.