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:

Anthropic is seeking a Head of Public Sector Security and FSO responsible for implementing and directing the government security program and ensuring company and customer security requirements are met. This position supports the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) and Anthropic's efforts to test for CBRN and national security other risks with government agencies, requiring interface with all levels of personnel and government management to ensure contract security compliance.

Responsibilities:

Security Program Administration

Take an inclusive, equitable approach to hiring and coaching top talent, and maintain a high performing team
Create and manage comprehensive system for security operational posture including personnel processing, program reviews, and document control systems
Oversee audits, self-inspections, and violation investigations & reporting requirements
Maintain security and risk management documentation and reporting systems
Process and manage visit certifications
Oversee facility access control systems and system design
Design and support SCIF facilities and alarm systems per ICD 705
Lead program for respond to FCL security incidents

Personnel Security Management

Oversee the maintenance of and updates to DISS/NISS systems
Create sustainable process for security clearance requests and changes
Responsible for ensuring all assigned personnel meet/maintain the appropriate security clearance requirements
Implement systematic employee security briefings/debriefings
Coordinate special access requirements and indoctrinations
Oversee foreign travel briefing program
Support insider threat program initiatives
Maintain personnel security files and databases

Compliance & Training

Ensure compliance with NISPOM, ICD directives, and applicable security regulations
Develop security policies, procedures, and documentation
Provide security awareness and OPSEC training
Conduct staff assistance visits and facility inspections
Manage COMSEC requirements
Support government inspections and assessments

Document Control

Maintain classified document accountability
Process courier authorizations
Manage document marking and handling procedures
Oversee classified visit requests
Maintain DD Form 254 documentation

You may be a good fit if you have:

Strong leadership skills with a proven track record and experience managing orgs of 20+ people
20-25 years of information security controls and/or USG security control experience, 5+ years of FSO-like experience
Current TS/SCI clearance and ability to maintain
Willingness to complete counterintelligence and lifestyle polygraph
Strong knowledge of physical security requirements (Collateral Closed Areas, DoDM 5205.07, ICD 705)
Proficiency with security systems (DISS, eQIP, NISS, ISFD)
Experience with COMSEC custodian duties
Comprehensive knowledge of NISPOM and IC security standards
Strong organizational and communication skills
Excellent leadership and people management skills

Strong candidates may also have:

DISS/NISS certification
Industrial Security Professional (ISP) certification
Comprehensive knowledge of information security controls and frameworks for managing risk
Have experience supporting fast-paced startup engineering teams
Care about AI safety risk scenarios

Additional Requirements:

U.S. citizenship (ITAR compliance)
Moderate travel expected
Subject to and must pass rigorous background checks, random drug testing, and polygraph
Ability to work in dynamic fast pace environment with minimal supervision

Staff in this position are required to be based either out of the greater San Francisco or DC area with moderate travel expected.

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

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$340,000—$400,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree 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.