Applied AI Security Architect

Anthropics 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:

As an Applied AI Security Architect you will serve as Anthropics trusted security expert for our most demanding enterprise customers. Youll engage directly with CISOs security architects compliance officers and technical leaders at the largest financial institutions insurers and other highly regulated enterprises across EMEA to address their most critical questions about deploying Claude safely and securely including the security capabilities of our latest generations of Claude models.

This is a pre-sales technical role focused on security compliance networking and data architecture. Your job is to walk into a room full of security professionals and demonstrate deep expertise in enterprise security regulatory compliance and data protection.

Whether youve been a Security Architect Solutions Architect Field CTO or senior pre-sales engineer what matters is that you understand how large European institutions evaluate and adopt technology and can speak credibly to their security and compliance concerns. This is a senior role: you will own our most complex and escalated security conversations in the region often as the decisive technical voice in front of a CISO.

We are looking for someone excited to help define how European enterprises should think about security and compliance in the age of AI. How do MCP autonomous agents and RBAC work together How do you deploy frontier models in line with GDPR EU data residency and the EU AI Act If working at the intersection of AI adoption and regulated industries excites you this is the role for you.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements addressing technical questions about Claudes architecture data flows encryption access controls and deployment models.
• Partner with CISOs security architects compliance teams and DPOs to understand their security requirements and design solutions that meet European regulatory standards (GDPR EU AI Act DORA NIS2 SOC 2 PCI-DSS and national regulator expectations).
• Lead technical deep-dives on network architecture EU data residency data retention and Zero Data Retention (ZDR) policies cross-border data transfers API security authentication/authorization audit logging and integration patterns for regulated environments.
• Support enterprise security reviews vendor assessments and due diligence with detailed technical documentation and expert guidance.
• Guide customers through EU AI Act readiness DORA and NIS2 and position Anthropic within the European competitive landscape.
• Collaborate with Sales and Applied AI teams from initial conversations through deployment.
• Partner closely with Anthropics product and engineering teams to understand Claudes security capabilities relay customer feedback and influence the roadmap.
• Develop security-focused collateral reference architectures and best practices for regulated industries.
• Travel regularly across EMEA for security workshops architecture reviews and strategic account meetings.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 7 years of experience in enterprise security cloud architecture or technical pre-sales with significant exposure to regulated industries in EMEA (financial services insurance healthcare).
• Deep technical knowledge of enterprise security concepts: network security identity and access management encryption (at rest and in transit) API security and audit/logging requirements.
• Deep working knowledge of GDPR (data residency data retention and Zero Data Retention international transfers DPIAs) and strong familiarity with the EU AI Act as it applies to foundation models.
• Experience navigating compliance frameworks relevant to European financial services and insurance (DORA NIS2 SOC 2 PCI-DSS and national regulators guidance on AI/ML such as FCA/PRA BaFin ACPR FINMA).
• A track record of leading complex high-stakes engagements with CISOs security teams and compliance officers at large European enterprises.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture and deployment models (AWS Azure GCP) including VPCs private endpoints hybrid connectivity and the European sovereign cloud landscape.
• Excellent communication skills: able to explain complex security topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent English; additional European languages are a strong plus.
• A good understanding of the EMEA enterprise AI market and competitive landscape.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity and move fast in a rapidly evolving market.
• A collaborative mindset: sales at Anthropic is a team sport.
• Excitement about AIs potential to transform highly regulated industries and a genuine desire to help customers adopt it safely and responsibly.

Minimum education: Bachelors 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

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 arent 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 youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were 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.

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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. Were 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.

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. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policy for using AI in our application process.