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Lead, Data Center Security Delivery (Construction to Operations)

Anthropic· Security
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$290k - $365kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead for Data Center Security Delivery responsible for end-to-end security delivery across Anthropic’s data center campuses from construction start through commissioning and handover to operations, ensuring operating partners have genuinely ready security capabilities before sites go live.

Responsibilities

  • Own the security delivery program across every Anthropic campus under construction: from groundbreaking to handover.
  • Construction-phase security delivery: temporary site security, contractor vetting and access, protection of installed equipment, coordination with general contractors and site teams on active builds.
  • Milestone and commissioning acceptance: define and maintain security acceptance criteria at construction milestones and commissioning gates; run or attend acceptance events (FAT/SAT, punch lists); issue or withhold security sign-off.
  • Operator readiness verification: build and run a structured, evidence-based readiness process proving the operating company is genuinely ready before handover: staffing and guard force in place, SOPs adopted, security systems commissioned and monitored, contractual security obligations demonstrably met.
  • Clean handover to operations: own the turnover package (as-builts, test records, credentials, punch-list closure, residual-risk register) and the transition from construction-phase to operational security ownership.
  • Requirements and process authority: rewrite DCSE's construction-security requirements, delivery processes, and acceptance frameworks where they fail in the field, codify what works for cleaner builds.
  • Representation and escalation: represent security in design reviews, owner-architect-contractor meetings, and change management; coordinate with integrators, general contractors, and operator counterparts on security system installation, testing, and commissioning; surface schedule and readiness risks to DCSE leadership and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

  • Have personally delivered the physical security scope on new-build data center or comparable critical-infrastructure construction projects (design reviews through construction, commissioning, and turnover to operations) and can name the sites and your role on them.
  • Have run milestone- or commissioning-acceptance processes: FAT/SAT, punch lists, turnover documentation, formal sign-off.
  • Have held an operator, landlord, or vendor accountable to contractual security obligations, with evidence rather than assurances.
  • Are comfortable being the person who says "not ready" and can produce a plan rather than a standoff.
  • Can absorb the operational noise of multiple concurrent construction sites and still drive each one toward its handover date.
  • Can author requirements, standards, and process documents that get adopted, and are willing to rewrite your own when they fail in the field.
  • Work through influence with general contractors, integrators, operators, and internal partners; you shape decisions rather than block them.

Skills

Required:Physical security deliveryMilestone/commissioning process managementContractual security obligations managementRequirements and standards authoringInfluence and stakeholder management

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits; optional equity donation matching; generous vacation and parental leave; flexible working hours; office space for collaboration.
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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