Security Risk & Compliance, SOX IT

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

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $270,000 – $345,000
  • Posted 2026-11-09
  • Confirmed live on 10 November 2026

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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 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,

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