Security Risk & Compliance, SOX IT

About Anthropic

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.

About the role

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

• 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.
• Build continuous monitoring and evidence readiness with GRC engineering. Stand up automated evidence collection and monitoring for ITGCs, map controls to the common controls framework, and materially raise automated evidence coverage while cutting audit prep time.
• Run system and process risk assessments. Identify control gaps in in-scope systems and processes, and recommend remediation that engineering owners can act on.
• Drive control deficiency remediation with cross-functional partners. Track and root-cause ITGC deficiencies surfaced by monitoring, Internal Audit, or external audit; partner with engineering owners on remediation design; and assess whether remediation actually closes the gap before re-testing.
• Support the external audit with Finance and Internal Audit. Prepare walkthroughs, evidence requests, and testing schedules on management's side, and keep the line clear between your monitoring and Internal Audit's independent testing.
• Assess scope changes through a SOX lens. When new products, entities, systems, or integrations come into scope, assess their impact on control design, evidence requirements, and engineering effort before commitments are made.
• Maintain alignment with the broader compliance portfolio. Support the controls and evidence behind SEC cybersecurity disclosure requirements.

You may be a good fit if you

• Thrive at the pace of a hypergrowth company. You're comfortable making calls with incomplete information and reprioritizing as scope shifts.
• Have been a senior contributor to an ITGC program through SOX 404 readiness and/or at a public company, with a working command of PCAOB AS 2201, COSO 2013, and how external auditors scope, test, and evaluate technology controls and deficiencies.
• Have hands-on IT audit or IT SOX experience designing, testing, and documenting controls across access management, change management, and operations.
• Have hands-on engineering fluency, possibly from an earlier engineering career: you can read code and Terraform, follow a CI/CD pipeline end to end, and challenge a design on its technical merits.
• Have deep familiarity with developer platforms, release engineering, cloud infrastructure, or ERP/financial systems control domains.
• Are a strong collaborator and communicator across Finance, Engineering, Internal Audit, and external auditors, and can work independently on complex workstreams while keeping senior stakeholders informed.
• Use Claude and other LLMs as daily working tools, and have grounded, specific views on which SOX assurance workflows AI can run today and which it can't yet.
• Translate SOX and framework language into acceptance criteria engineers can build against, and translate engineering reality back into assurance language auditors and leadership can rely on.
• Default to getting the requirement designed into the system rather than papering over the gap with procedure.

Strong candidates may have

• A combination of audit or advisory experience (Big 4 or equivalent, ideally IT audit) with in-house experience at an AI-forward tech company, in either order.
• 12+ years of hands-on IT audit and SOX compliance experience.
• Taken a company through a first-year SOX 404(a) and 404(b) assessment, including a first external ITGC audit.
• Experience at a pre-IPO or newly public technology company.
• Defined or assessed controls over home-built financially significant systems, usage-based billing, or revenue metering pipelines.
• Defined or assessed controls for AI/ML systems or agents acting in production environments.
• Stood up continuous controls monitoring or automated evidence programs.
• Experience with SOC 1 reliance, service organization control mapping, and complementary user entity controls.

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.

Annual Salary:

$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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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.