Security Risk & Compliance, HIPAA
$255k - $270k USD
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 that Role
As part of the Anthropic security department, the compliance team owns understanding security and AI safety expectations, as established by regulators, customers, and (nascent) industry norms — which we also seek to influence. The compliance team uses this understanding to provide direction to internal partners on the priorities of security and safety requirements they must meet. The compliance team demonstrates adherence to security expectations through credential attainment, the establishment of assurance and oversight mechanisms, and direct engagement with auditors, customers, and partners.
This opportunity is unique. Anthropic is expanding HIPAA coverage across its product portfolio — including Claude Code, the Claude Developer Platform, and Claude Cowork — and we need to build the compliance infrastructure to match that expansion. We are looking for someone to own HIPAA compliance operations end-to-end, not just advise on it.
Responsibilities:
- Operate Anthropic’s HIPAA compliance review program, executing on HIPAA obligations across the product portfolio.
- Run a dedicated HIPAA review track in parallel with the Product Security Review (PSR) process, applying compliance checklist to every in-scope change and recording a complete, auditable disposition before release.
- Build and maintain change monitoring mechanisms to catch HIPAA-relevant changes — including default setting changes and incremental updates.
- Partner with product and engineering teams upstream to ensure HIPAA considerations are built into first releases rather than addressed as post-launch remediations.
- Assess and document PHI data flows, infrastructure boundaries, and control coverage across Anthropic’s cloud-native product environments.
- Write, update, and enact HIPAA policies, checklists, deployment guides, and audit evidence packages.
- Manage Business Associate Agreement (BAA) obligations and coordinate with legal and external counsel on PHI determination questions and emerging regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to Anthropic’s broader compliance program, including adjacent frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53) where they intersect with HIPAA obligations.
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 5+ years of progressive experience in compliance roles, including direct ownership of a HIPAA compliance program at a technology company
- Have evaluated PHI data flows and infrastructure boundaries in cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and can assess HIPAA exposure without always needing to escalate to legal
- Have designed and operated a compliance review mechanism integrated into a product development or release process
- Can translate HIPAA technical compliance requirements into actionable workstreams for engineering and product teams
- Deliver clear, precise compliance documentation — policies, checklists, audit evidence, deployment guides — for both technical and non-technical audiences
- Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where you’re expected to build processes from scratch and keep them working under rapid product change
- Are energized by being the organizational expert who educates and influences rather than only advises
Strong candidates may also:
- Have worked in AI/ML or developer-platform companies and understand the unique challenges of PHI exposure in model inference and API environments
- Have HITRUST CSF experience or experience mapping HIPAA requirements to HITRUST controls
- Bring experience from high-growth technology companies where compliance programs had to scale alongside rapid product expansion
- Have implemented or significantly contributed to compliance automation or GRC tooling integrations
- Possess relevant certifications (CHPC, HCISPP, CISA, CISM, CISSP, or equivalent)
Candidates need not have:
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Done everything on this list before — we value learning agility and willingness to tackle novel compliance challenges in the AI space
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:
$255,000—$270,000 USD
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
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.
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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