Anthropic
Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer
$320K–$405K
Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) +3 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Location
- Remote-Friendly (Travel Required)
San Francisco, CA
Remote-Friendly US (Travel Required)
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job-level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Designs and verifies physical security systems and security operations control rooms for data center sites, setting site-specific requirements and accepting delivered systems.
What you'll do
- Create and maintain vendor-ready physical security reference designs, specifications, drawings, schedules, and test procedures.
- Set site-specific requirements based on threat and risk, review designs, and conduct field commissioning and acceptance tests.
- Define control room design and operational requirements, then accept or reject delivered systems against established criteria.
What they ask for
- Have designed or specified perimeter barriers, intrusion detection, video, and security lighting for campus-scale sites.
- Read and produce construction documents using standard design and markup tools such as AutoCAD, Revit, or Bluebeam.
- Write testable performance requirements and have run commissioning and acceptance tests, including rejecting work that failed criteria.
- Have derived requirements from a threat basis and owned an engineering domain, including vendor engagement and accountability for results.
Nice to have
- Experience with colocation or partner-delivered facility security design, or carrying a design through construction and acceptance.
- Working knowledge of relevant published standards; photometric/video measurement; control room, AV, or network design; or AI-assisted tooling.
Pay
$320,000 — $405,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, Claude
AI focus
Use Claude throughout the engineering workflow; AI-assisted tooling for drafting and review is preferred.
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