Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Details

As a member of Anthropic’s International Policy Applied AI team, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to governments, AI Safety Institutes, and multilateral institutions. You will use your technical skills and experience with government partners to help them understand, test, and apply frontier AI to public missions with a high degree of reliability and safety.

You will collaborate with Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams to help partners develop strategies and plans for evaluating and adopting leading-edge AI systems. The role involves explaining the benefits, risks, and safety considerations of frontier AI to technical and non-technical audiences, while identifying how AI systems can best serve public interests around the world.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary technical advisor for senior officials in partner governments, AI Safety Institutes, and international institutions.
• Brief partners on frontier AI capabilities, including benefits, harms, and safety research.
• Partner with the Policy team to understand partner goals and requirements.
• Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites showing how Claude can support public missions, such as cyber defense.
• Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies.
• Guide setup, architecture, and integration as partners build with Claude Code and the Claude API.
• Represent international partner needs and collaborate with Product and Research teams to deliver required capabilities.
• Travel internationally for partner meetings, technical enablement, and relationship building.
• Establish a shared vision for creating beneficial and safe AI solutions.
• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions leveraging Anthropic’s latest models.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer working with governments, international organizations, or the public sector.
• Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs.
• Experience designing novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area.
• Familiarity with evaluating and testing AI models for safety.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to partner with engineers.
• Strong proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
• Understanding of and experience with large language model fundamentals.
• Ability to navigate and execute amid ambiguity, flex across domains, and develop simple, understandable solutions.
• Ability to collaborate across organizations, work through trade-offs, and balance competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex topics to engineers, senior government officials, and other diverse stakeholders.
• Passion for using technology creatively, safely, and beneficially to advance safe AI systems.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• A field of study relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $240,000–$315,000 USD

Logistics

• Location-based hybrid policy: Staff are expected to work from one of Anthropic’s offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.
• Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to obtain visas for successful candidates, with support from an immigration lawyer.

Benefits

Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration.