Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer

The role

You will design and specify physical security systems for data center sites including perimeter barriers, intrusion detection, video, and lighting. You will own the physical security reference design package and perform field verification and acceptance testing.

What you will do

• Produce vendor-ready design packages for perimeter barriers, intrusion detection, video, and lighting
• Define per-site engineering basis based on risk profile and threats
• Write acceptance criteria and test methods for requirements
• Set standoff, structural hardening, and site layout criteria
• Run field verification including commissioning and acceptance testing
• Write operational and design requirements for security operations control rooms
• Own control room acceptance for video walls, consoles, and cabling

Required qualifications

• Designed or specified physical security systems for campus-scale sites
• Read and produce construction documents using AutoCAD, Revit, or Bluebeam
• Write testable performance requirements
• Run commissioning and acceptance tests against performance criteria
• Derive requirements from a threat basis
• Owned an engineering domain setting approach and working with vendors
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role

Nice to have

• Experience carrying a physical security design from construction documents through construction to acceptance testing
• Experience engineering the security scope of colocation or partner-delivered facilities
• Working knowledge of published standards for standoff, hostile vehicle mitigation, and intrusion detection zoning
• Photometric and video quality measurement experience
• Control room, AV, or network design experience
• Experience using AI-assisted tooling for drafting and review

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.