Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer

Job Overview

As a Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer at Anthropic, you will play a crucial role in securing the company's data center footprint by designing and specifying physical security systems for sites. You will work closely with partners, design firms, and integrators to ensure that sites are built to be secure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and specify physical security systems for sites, including perimeter and vehicle barriers, intrusion detection, video, security lighting, and site penetrations and utility entry points.
• Produce a vendor-ready design package for perimeter barriers and hostile vehicle mitigation, intrusion detection and its zoning, video coverage, security lighting matched to camera performance, and penetration protection.
• Define the per-site engineering basis, including which requirements apply to a site based on its risk profile and the threats it faces, with compensating controls and documented deviations.
• Write the acceptance criteria and test methods for each requirement.
• Set standoff, structural hardening, and site layout criteria for new designs, tied to the threat basis.
• Run field verification, including commissioning and acceptance testing of perimeter, detection, video, and lighting against performance criteria.
• Write the operational and design requirements for security operations control rooms.
• Own control room acceptance, including factory and site acceptance criteria.

Requirements

• Have designed or specified physical security systems for campus-scale sites.
• Read and produce construction documents using standard design and markup tools.
• Write performance requirements that are testable.
• Have run commissioning and acceptance tests against performance criteria.
• Derive requirements from a threat basis rather than a product catalog.
• Have owned an engineering domain where you set the approach, chose what applied to each site, worked directly with vendors, and answered for the result.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience carrying a physical security design from construction documents through construction to acceptance testing.
• Experience engineering the security scope of colocation or partner-delivered facilities.
• Working knowledge of published standards for standoff, hostile vehicle mitigation, and intrusion detection zoning.
• Photometric and video quality measurement experience.
• Control room, AV, or network design experience.
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling for drafting and review.

Logistics

• Annual salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field relevant to the role
• Minimum years of experience correlate with internal job level requirements
• Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time
• Visa sponsorship available

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space