Security Risk & Compliance, HIPAA

About the position 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.

Requirements

• 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
• We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Nice-to-haves

• 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)

Benefits

• 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.