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Personnel Security Management Specialist

Anthropic•Washington, DC
•$180,000 - $230,000•Hybrid
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About The Position

Anthropic's U.S. Industrial Security team is responsible for Facility Security Clearances (FCL), Personnel Security (PERSEC), Contracts and DD254s, Policies/Procedures/Automation/Metrics, and Compliance within the Defense Industrial Base and U.S. Intelligence Community. This role involves working closely with the FSO on daily PERSEC casework for DoD/DoW and Intelligence Community (IC) contracts, including collateral and SCI. The specialist will act as a Contract Program Security Officer (CPSO) for classified contracts, managing personnel additions, removals, and upgrades, and liaising with cleared personnel, program managers, and government sponsors. Responsibilities also include expanding the security education program, developing workflows for all aspects of cleared personnel management (contract support, terminations, debriefs, onboarding, reporting, training), and serving as backup to the FSO for FCL matters to ensure ongoing compliance. This position is critical for maintaining Anthropic's ability to support classified work with the U.S. government and offers a significant opportunity to influence the development of the industrial security team and program.

Requirements

  • Hold an active Top Secret security clearance
  • Extensive experience in end-to-end classified contract program management
  • Hands-on experience with DoD/DoW and IC PERSEC processes and terminology (VARs, NISPOM, CE/CV, SEAD 3, NISS, DISS, SWFT, NBIS)
  • Worked with several different US government agencies, and have experience with collateral and SCI PERSEC processes and requirements
  • Experience designing, delivering, and briefing a wide range of security content to a variety of cleared stakeholders (creating, rolling out security training)
  • Enjoy operating independently across time-bound, compliance-driven casework with minimal oversight
  • Notice what isn't working and take the initiative to propose fixes, rather than waiting to be told
  • Are comfortable figuring out what you don't yet know but need to know, without hand-holding
  • Use sound judgment on ambiguous CI/reportability calls
  • Enjoy the building and optimization of programs as much as running them
  • Can build trust quickly with a cleared population, program managers, and external agency points of contact
  • Are comfortable directing AI tools as part of your day-to-day workflow rather than relying purely on manual processing

Nice To Haves

  • TS/SCI eligibility
  • Five Eyes clearance program experience
  • Experience delivering security training or building compliant security education programs for cleared personnel
  • Familiarity with adjacent industrial security functions: Safeguarding, DD254s/Contracts, FCL/Compliance, Policies/Automation/Metrics
  • Experience with Jira or similar ticketing systems
  • Willingness to travel periodically (approximately 6x per year) to company offices as needed

Responsibilities

  • Act as CPSO for classified contracts: add, remove, and upgrade personnel on contracts, and optimize relationships with program managers, employees, prime/subk partners, and government sponsors
  • Enhance and execute a security education program covering in-briefs, debriefs, and ongoing training for cleared employees
  • Build and enhance workflows for the full range of PERSEC casework: contract support, terminations, debriefs, in-briefs, and training
  • Own clearance actions end to end (initiation through debrief) across DoD/DoW systems (DISS, SWFT, NBIS) and IC-equivalent processes, both collateral and SCI
  • Manage CE/CV and reportable-event intake, including foreign travel and foreign contact reporting under SEAD 3
  • Maintain understanding of FCL fundamentals sufficient to serve as backup coverage for the FSO
  • Use Claude and other AI tools to automate PERSEC processes wherever possible, with the understanding that a meaningful amount of this work will remain manual given government constraints
  • Take on special projects and fire drills as needed

Benefits

  • competitive compensation
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation
  • parental leave
  • flexible working hours

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Career Level

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