Anthropic - Applied AI Security Architect

London, UK - Hybrid£190k/year+ Equity1mo ago

In Office Principal EMEA Banking Insurance Security Architect Lawyer AWS Azure GCP Claude Documentation

Requirements

• 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 AI's potential to transform highly regulated industries, and a genuine desire to help customers adopt it safely and responsibly. • 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. • Location-based hybrid policy: • 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. • Visa sponsorship: • 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.Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. • We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. • Your safety matters to us. • How we're different • How we're different • 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. We're 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. • Come work with us! • Come work with us! • 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process. • Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary security and compliance expert in customer engagements, addressing technical questions about Claude's 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 Anthropic’s product and engineering teams to understand Claude's 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.

Benefits

• 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. • £190,000—£225,000 GBP • 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. • 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. • Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. • How we're different • 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. We're 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. • Come work with us! • 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.