Security Controls Assurance Lead

San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · full time · Senior

$270,000 – $345,000

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What this role is

This role leads the design and validation of security controls for Anthropic's AI systems, ensuring they meet regulatory frameworks while scaling with the company's infrastructure. It's ideal for someone with both compliance audit experience and practical engineering knowledge who can translate between auditor and developer languages.

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Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Experience with technology control programs through SOX readiness or equivalent rigor
Engineering fluency including ability to read code and Terraform
Programming skills in Python or systems languages (Go, Rust, C/C++)
Deep familiarity with developer platform, release engineering, or infrastructure controls
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Active use of Claude and LLMs with grounded perspective on AI audit workflows
Ability to translate compliance frameworks into engineering requirements

Nice to have

Combination of Big 4 audit/advisory experience plus in-house experience at AI-forward tech company
Experience defining or assessing controls for AI/ML systems in production
Experience standing up continuous controls monitoring or automated evidence programs