This foundational role focuses on designing and specifying physical security systems for Anthropic’s data center sites. It involves creating vendor‑ready design packages, defining site‑specific engineering baselines, writing acceptance and test criteria, and conducting field verification. The position requires deep expertise in campus‑scale physical security, construction documentation, performance requirements, and site commissioning, with a strong emphasis on threat‑driven design and vendor collaboration.
Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer at Anthropic
Remote - San Francisco, CA
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USD 320,000 - 405,000
Requirements
Skills
- Designed or specified physical security systems (perimeter barriers, intrusion detection, video, security lighting) for campus-scale sites with multiple buildings, secured perimeter, and many detection zones
- Read and produce construction documents (site plans, civil and electrical drawings, device schedules, submittals) using standard design and markup tools such as AutoCAD, Revit, or Bluebeam
- Write performance requirements that are testable, specifying what must be true, how it will be verified, and the evidence required
- Run commissioning and acceptance tests against performance criteria and reject work that does not meet them
- Derive requirements from a threat basis rather than a product catalog, identifying which adversary a control stops and the next weakest point
- Own an engineering domain where you set the approach, choose applicable controls for each site, work directly with vendors, and answer for the result
Responsibilities
- Produce a vendor‑ready design package for perimeter barriers, hostile vehicle mitigation, intrusion detection zoning, video coverage, security lighting, and penetration protection, including performance specifications, typical details, reference drawings, device and zone schedules, and test methods
- Define per‑site engineering basis by determining which requirements apply based on risk profile and threats, including compensating controls and documented deviations
- Write acceptance criteria and test methods, establishing verification methods behind each requirement and the evidence a site must provide to pass acceptance
- Set standoff, structural hardening, and site layout criteria for new designs, tied to the threat basis
- Run field verification, commissioning, and acceptance testing of perimeter, detection, video, and lighting systems against performance criteria
- Write operational and design requirements for security operations control rooms, covering console layout, room network, power, backup, and resilient communications
- Own control‑room acceptance, creating factory and site acceptance criteria before build and accepting or rejecting delivered systems against them
Technologies
AutoCADRevitBluebeamClaude (AI assistant)Video quality measurementPhotometric measurement
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