Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer

Job summary

Responsibilities

Data Center Security Engineering (DCSE) secures Anthropic's data center footprint; this role covers how the sites are designed and built to be secure. Much of that footprint is designed and built with partners, so a site's security is decided early: in what Anthropic hands the people who build it…

• Produce a vendor-ready design package for perimeter barriers and hostile vehicle mitigation, intrusion detection and its zoning, video coverage, security lighting matched to…
• Define the per-site engineering basis: 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: the verification method behind each requirement and the evidence a site must produce to pass acceptance
• Set standoff, structural hardening, and site layout criteria for new designs, tied to the threat basis they derive from
• Run field verification: commissioning and acceptance testing of perimeter, detection, video, and lighting against performance criteria (detection coverage tests, photometric…

What they're looking for

• Have designed or specified physical security systems (perimeter barriers, intrusion detection, video, security lighting) for campus-scale sites: multiple buildings, a secured…
• Read and produce construction documents (site plans, civil and electrical drawings, device schedules, submittals) using standard design and markup tools such as AutoCAD, Revit…
• Write performance requirements that are testable: each states what must be true, how it will be verified, and what evidence shows it
• Have run commissioning and acceptance tests against performance criteria and rejected work that did not meet them
• Derive requirements from a threat basis rather than a product catalog: you can say which adversary a control stops and where the next weakest point is