Applied AI Security Architect

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. As an Applied AI Security Architect, you will serve as Anthropic's trusted security expert for its most demanding enterprise customers, engaging directly with CISOs, security architects, compliance officers, and technical leaders at the largest financial institutions, insurers, and other highly regulated enterprises across EMEA. This is a senior pre-sales technical role focused on security, compliance, networking, and data architecture, owning the most complex and escalated security conversations in the region.

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements, addressing technical questions about Claude's architecture, data flows, encryption, access controls, and deployment models.
• Partner with CISOs, security architects, compliance teams, and DPOs to design solutions meeting European regulatory standards (GDPR, EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and national regulator expectations).
• Lead technical deep-dives on network architecture, EU data residency, data retention and Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policies, cross-border data transfers, API security, authentication/authorization, audit logging, and integration patterns for regulated environments.
• Support enterprise security reviews, vendor assessments, and due diligence; guide customers through EU AI Act readiness, DORA, and NIS2.
• Collaborate with Sales and Applied AI teams from initial conversations through deployment, and partner with product and engineering teams to influence the roadmap.
• Develop security-focused collateral, reference architectures, and best practices for regulated industries; travel regularly across EMEA for security workshops, architecture reviews, and strategic account meetings.

• 7+ years of experience in enterprise security, cloud architecture, or technical pre-sales, with significant exposure to regulated industries in EMEA (financial services, insurance, healthcare).
• Deep technical knowledge of network security, identity and access management, encryption (at rest and in transit), API security, and audit/logging requirements.
• Deep working knowledge of GDPR (data residency, data retention and Zero Data Retention, international transfers, DPIAs) and strong familiarity with the EU AI Act as it applies to foundation models.
• Experience navigating compliance frameworks relevant to European financial services and insurance (DORA, NIS2, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and national regulators' guidance on AI/ML).
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and deployment models (AWS, Azure, GCP), including VPCs, private endpoints, hybrid connectivity, and the European sovereign cloud landscape.
• Excellent communication skills; fluent English with additional European languages a strong plus; understanding of the EMEA enterprise AI market.

Annual Salary: £190,000—£230,000 GBP. For sales roles, the range is the role's On Target Earnings (OTE) range, including sales commissions/bonuses target and annual base salary.

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a relevant field. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time. Anthropic sponsors visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain one for offered candidates.