Lead, Data Center Security Delivery (Construction to Operations)

Anthropic is an AI safety company whose mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is building data center campuses at a pace where several are under construction at once, each moving through design, construction, commissioning, and turnover to an operating partner.

As Lead for Data Center Security Delivery, you will own security through that entire arc for every campus under construction: from groundbreaking, through construction-phase security, through commissioning and milestone acceptance, to a clean handover into full operation. You are the single point of accountability for "the site's security is actually ready", and you will verify that the operating partner has its people, processes, systems, and contractual security obligations genuinely in place before a site goes live. This is a delivery role, not a watch-the-dashboard role, and is distinct from DCSE's regional security operations leads and systems-engineering roles.

• Own the security delivery program across every Anthropic campus under construction, concurrently, from groundbreaking to handover.
• Construction-phase security delivery: temporary site security, contractor vetting and access, protection of installed equipment, and coordination with general contractors and site teams on every active build.
• Milestone and commissioning acceptance: define and maintain security acceptance criteria at each construction milestone and commissioning gate; run or attend acceptance events (FAT/SAT, punch lists); issue or withhold the 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, SOPs, commissioned and monitored security systems, contractual obligations met).
• Clean handover to operations: own the turnover package (as-builts, test records, credentials, punch-list closure, residual-risk register) and the transition 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, and codify what works.
• Representation and escalation: represent security in design reviews, owner-architect-contractor (OAC) meetings, and change management; surface schedule and readiness risks early to DCSE leadership and cross-functional partners.

• Personally delivered the physical security scope on new-build data center (or comparable critical-infrastructure) construction projects, from design reviews through construction, commissioning, and turnover to operations.
• Run milestone- or commissioning-acceptance processes: FAT/SAT, punch lists, turnover documentation, formal sign-off.
• Held an operator, landlord, or vendor accountable to contractual security obligations, with evidence rather than assurances.
• Comfortable being the person who says "not ready" in a way that produces a plan rather than a standoff.
• 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.

• CPP (Certified Protection Professional) or PSP (Physical Security Professional) certification, or commissioning credentials.
• Hyperscaler or major colocation new-build delivery experience.
• Experience on both sides of an operator/tenant relationship.
• Construction management or owner's-representative background.
• Experience in regulated or high-assurance environments.

Annual Salary: $290,000—$365,000 USD.

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Location-based hybrid policy: all staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available.