Anthropic· Legal· New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC

Commercial Counsel, Infrastructure Security

Classified Tasks (38)

Automate 0%Augment 11%Human-Only 89%

Augment (4)

AI assists, human decides

8 Ensure security requirements are included in contracts prior to signature

operational

27 Provide NIST/ISO/SOC 2 physical-control evidence for customer and auditor assurance in partnership with security teams

administrative

30 Develop and maintain a security-schedule library and design-basis templates

administrative

31 Advise on vendor security questionnaire templates and negotiation playbooks

analytical

Human-Only (34)

Requires human judgment

1. 1 Serve as the day-to-day legal partner to the Chief Security Officer’s infrastructure-security and Governance, Risk and Compliance teams

leadership

2 Own contractual and regulatory requirements for physical and facility security

operational

3 Own contractual and regulatory requirements for hardware and supply-chain security

operational

4 Own contractual and regulatory requirements for network security

operational

5 Own contractual and regulatory requirements for vendor personnel and insider-risk flow-downs

operational

6 Own contractual and regulatory requirements for security regulatory and assurance

operational

7 Collaborate with Frontier, Product, Litigation, Employment, and Commercial Legal teams and specialized outside counsel

communication

9 Ensure external work product aligns with Anthropic’s security posture and commercial objectives

operational

10 Draft and negotiate security design-basis and site-hardening specifications in build-to-suit, lease, and colocation agreements, including perimeter, access control, CCTV, and intrusion detection

technical

11 Draft and negotiate guard-force statements of work, post orders, and KPI regimes

operational

12 Draft and negotiate visitor, contractor, and badging policies

administrative

13 Draft and negotiate security clauses in shared-campus and multi-tenant arrangements

operational

14 Own provenance, anti-tamper, and chain-of-custody warranties in silicon, ODM, and OEM contracts

technical

15 Implement trusted-supplier and country-of-origin restrictions in supplier agreements

operational

16 Flow down NDAA §889/§5949 and CHIPS-Act guardrails into vendor contracts

operational

17 Flow down BIS/EAR advanced-computing and semiconductor export-control requirements and end-use/end-user certifications into contracts

operational

18 Draft firmware integrity, secure-boot, and golden-image escrow contract terms

technical

19 Draft and enforce secure logistics contract terms

operational

20 Draft and enforce counterfeit-part and grey-market control clauses

operational

21 Draft and enforce secure decommissioning and certified media-destruction terms

operational

22 Draft security schedules in carrier and fiber agreements covering encryption-in-transit, route integrity, and lawful-intercept handling

technical

23 Draft security obligations in peering agreements

technical

24 Set background-screening, training, and badge-revocation requirements for vendor and contractor personnel with site or hardware access

administrative

25 Flow Anthropic personnel-security standards into guard-force, security-integrator, and EPC vendor MSAs

operational

26 Support CFIUS and outbound-investment screening on infrastructure vendors and sites

operational

28 Support security representations in customer contracts that reference physical infrastructure with Commercial Legal

communication

29 Manage relationships with specialized outside counsel, ensuring their work product aligns with security and commercial objectives

leadership

32 Train Procurement, Datacenter, and Network teams to apply security templates, schedules, and playbooks at scale

communication

33 Serve as direct counsel to the CSO’s infrastructure-security organization

leadership

34 Coordinate with Product Legal and Litigation on incident response

communication

35 Coordinate with Product Legal and Litigation on threat intelligence

communication

36 Coordinate law-enforcement and intelligence-community engagement related to infrastructure security

communication

37 Coordinate on insider-threat governance

operational

38 Coordinate on model-weight security and related asset protection

technical

Job description

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 model weights and training infrastructure are among the highest-value targets in the technology sector, facing nation-state, supply-chain interdiction, and insider threats that conventional enterprise security programs were not built to address. As Commercial Counsel, Infrastructure Security for Compute and Infrastructure at Anthropic, you’ll be the day-to-day legal partner to the Chief Security Officer’s infrastructure-security and the Governance, Risk and Compliance teams. You will own the contractual and regulatory layer of physical and facility security, hardware and supply-chain security, network security, vendor personnel and insider-risk flow-downs, and security regulatory and assurance. You’ll work in close partnership with Anthropic teammates in Frontier, Product, Litigation, Employment, and Commercial Legal, in addition to specialized outside counsel. You will serve as the primary legal owner ensuring security requirements are in the contract before signature and that external work product aligns with Anthropic’s security posture and commercial objectives. Responsibilities: Draft and negotiate security design-basis and site-hardening specifications in build-to-suit, lease, and colo agreements (perimeter, access control, CCTV, intrusion detection); guard-force statements of work, post orders, and KPI regimes; visitor, contractor, and badging policy; and security clauses in shared-campus and multi-tenant arrangements Own provenance, anti-tamper, and chain-of-custody warranties in silicon, ODM, and OEM paper; trusted-supplier and country-of-origin restrictions; NDAA §889/§5949 and CHIPS-Act guardrail flow-downs; BIS/EAR advanced-computing and semiconductor export-control flow-downs and end-use/end-user certifications; firmware integrity, secure-boot, and golden-image escrow terms; secure logistics; counterfeit-part and grey-market controls; and secure decommissioning and certified media-destruction terms Draft security schedules in carrier and fiber agreements (encryption-in-transit, route integrity, lawful-intercept handling), and security obligations in peering agreements Set background-screening, training, and badge-revocation requirements for vendor and contractor personnel with site or hardware access, and flow Anthropic personnel-security standards into guard-force, security-integrator, and EPC vendor MSAs Support CFIUS and outbound-investment screening on infrastructure vendors and sites, provide NIST/ISO/SOC 2 physical-control evidence for customer and auditor assurance in partnership with security teams; and support security representations in customer contracts that reference physical infrastructure with Commercial Legal Work closely with specialized outside counsel, ensuring their work product aligns with Anthropic’s security and commercial objectives Build the function: develop and maintain the security-schedule library, design-basis templates, advise on vendor security questionnaire templates, and negotiation playbooks; train Procurement, Datacenter, and Network teams to apply them at scale Serve as direct counsel to the CSO’s infrastructure-security organization, coordinating with Product Legal and Litigation on incident response, threat intelligence, law-enforcement and intelligence-community engagement, insider-threat governance, and model-weight securi

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