Job brief: Lead, Data Center Security Delivery (Construction to Operations)

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Anthropic's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-04 (3 days ago); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-06.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Anthropic's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $290,000 to $365,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA · Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required)
• Posted: 2026-08-18 · over 60 days ago

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Lead".

Must have

• CPP (Certified Protection Professional) or PSP (Physical Security Professional) certification, or commissioning credentials.
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Conditions

• Security scope on those projects (the physical protections, the systems that enforce them, and the operational readiness of the company that will run the site) has to be delivered…
• Have personally delivered the physical security scope on new-build data center (or comparable critical-infrastructure) construction projects (design reviews through construction, …
• 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.

Main duties

• You will 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 genera…
• Milestone and commissioning acceptance: define and maintain the security acceptance criteria at each construction milestone and commissioning gate; run or at…
• Operator readiness verification: build and run a structured, evidence-based readiness process proving the operating company is genuinely ready before handove…
• Clean handover to operations: own the turnover package (as-builts, test records, credentials, punch-list closure, residual-risk register) and the defined tra…

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for driver jobs in California: $63k a year (35 listings, 11 employers). This listing is 419% higher.
• Across Anthropic's 541 open listings, 54% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Anthropic hires

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