Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

at Anthropic

📍 Washington, United States
📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States

USD 265,000-295,000 per year

MIDDLE

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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Details

Anthropic’s Policy Development team translates technical insights into workable policy ideas for governing frontier AI. This role focuses on technical and cross-lab safety practices, frontier AI legislation, and technical governance proposals. The role works closely with policy, research, alignment, safety, legal, safeguards, and external affairs teams.

Responsibilities

Develop technical safety best practices and standards for frontier AI development with policy, research, and safeguards teams.
Support cross-lab discussions and initiatives and represent Anthropic in standards initiatives and groups.
Review and provide substantive input on federal, state, and global frontier AI safety bills, including legislation concerning risk reporting, independent evaluation, and incident reporting.
Work with external affairs policy teams to strengthen Anthropic’s frontier AI legislative framework.
Contribute research and analysis to policy workstreams, including novel policy proposals addressing challenges related to the acceleration of AI research and development.
Engage with the external AI safety and governance community and incorporate emerging ideas into Anthropic’s work.
Write clear memos and briefings to support leadership decision-making.

Requirements

Fluency in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance, including the main players, proposals, and debates.
Ability to read legislative text and provide useful substantive commentary.
Expertise in one or more of the following areas: loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, or risk reporting.
Strong writing skills for researchers, leadership, and policymakers.
Ability to quickly learn new technical topics and translate them into the broader policy landscape.
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to own projects end to end.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. The field of study must be relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Interest in standards work and the wider technical governance agenda.
Direct experience at an AI governance or safety research organization or frontier lab.
Experience working with standards bodies or industry consortia.
Experience developing and shaping technical legislation.
Published policy research or novel thinking on AI governance.

Compensation

The annual salary range is $265,000–$295,000 USD.

Benefits and Logistics

Anthropic currently expects staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office attendance.
Anthropic sponsors visas and makes reasonable efforts to obtain visas for successful candidates, with support from an immigration lawyer.
Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.