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 Facility Security Officer (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:
- 20-25 years cybersecurity 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 other cybersecurity 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
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.
