Security Risk & Compliance, SOX IT

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.

Anthropic's Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) team is the connective tissue that holds the company accountable to its security and control commitments. We translate regulatory, customer, and voluntary obligations into controls that teams act on, and give leadership a bird's-eye view of how well we're meeting them. We're building continuous assurance, to challenge and evidence the performance of controls continuously rather than through periodic audits.

As Anthropic scales to meet public-company standards, the Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) control environment over our technology stack is one of the most consequential things this team will drive. Within Security GRC's technical controls assurance function, you will be a hands-on senior contributor on what the IT general controls must achieve to support SOX 404 compliance. You will work as a peer to Internal Audit's IT SOX team: Internal Audit tests independently, and you define the control requirements, monitor that controls operate, and make sure evidence is audit-ready before Internal Audit and our external auditors test it.

You will pair with Engineering, Security, IT, and Finance as they design and implement against those requirements, and validate that what ships actually meets the bar. You will also work with GRC engineering to automate evidence collection and continuous monitoring, starting with ITGCs and extending into other areas of security and compliance. This role reports to the Head of Security Controls Assurance and is well suited to someone who wants to stay close to the work and change how a frontier AI company builds its compliance infrastructure.

Key responsibilities

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Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be received on a rolling basis. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

• Define control requirements and acceptance criteria across the core ITGC domains of logical access, change management, operations, and program development for SOX in-scope systems, including home-built platforms where the control has to be designed into the system.
• Set the bar for in-scope systems from day one. As financially significant systems are built, migrated, or replaced, define what the system must provide before go-live, and assess SDLC controls for new system implementations and changes so controls are not retrofitted after the fact.
• Pressure-test changes for SOX impact during design. Review major infrastructure, system, and agent framework changes for control impact while decisions are still cheap, and keep a clear view of which changes alter the SOX scope, key control population, or evidence requirements.
• Perform second-line monitoring and readiness testing. Test key ITGCs and IT automated controls (ITACs) ahead of Internal Audit and the external auditors, including walkthrough preparation and validation that populations are complete and accurate, and support the move from manual to automated control reliance.

$270,000—$345,000 USD

Logistics

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

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.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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.

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