Technical Policy Lead, Government & Third-Party Safety Partnerships

Details

Anthropic is seeking a Technical Policy Lead for Government and Third-Party Safety Partnerships to advance safety partnerships with governments and external third-party evaluators. This hybrid role is technically grounded and drives policy impact — strengthening state capacity, building a wider ecosystem for AI safety, and developing shared standards to help ensure safe global transitions through transformative AI.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a bridge between Anthropic's Policy, Frontier Red Team, Alignment, Safeguards, and Legal teams and external government safety institutes and third-party evaluators.
• Identify and prioritize collaboration opportunities that advance state capacity on AI safety, strengthen the broader safety ecosystem, and support Anthropic policy objectives for ASL-4+ readiness and standards harmonization.
• Develop frameworks for engaging with emerging government safety organizations to promote a coherent global approach that leverages each country's capabilities.
• Evaluate and prioritize inbound requests from external safety organizations to focus Anthropic's engagement on high-impact collaborations.
• Own strategic alignment and day-to-day coordination with organizations such as US CAISI, UK AISI, and other relevant safety organizations, serving as the primary operational point of contact.
• Manage research and testing collaborations covering pre/post-deployment evaluations, safeguards testing, and alignment research.
• Coordinate between internal teams (Policy, Frontier Red Team, Alignment, Safeguards, Legal, Communications) to facilitate external safety partnerships.
• Support Legal in negotiating and maintaining collaboration agreements and MOUs and manage technical access provisions per agreement terms.
• Track external safety partnerships and provide timely updates to internal stakeholders; position partnerships to provide decision-relevant information for internal safety teams and processes (e.g., safety cases).
• Represent Anthropic at external conferences and speaking engagements.

Requirements

• Direct experience with government or third-party safety organizations (experience working with or at entities such as US CAISI, UK AISI, METR, Apollo, or equivalent is cited as relevant).
• Technical background in AI safety-relevant areas sufficient to engage credibly with evaluation methodologies, understand alignment and safeguards concepts, and partner with internal technical staff.
• Familiarity with safety standards such as Anthropic's Responsible Scaling policy and the EU Code of Practice.
• Proven track record in multi-stakeholder coordination across research, policy, legal, and communications teams.
• Strong judgment in ambiguous situations, ability to synthesize incomplete information, identify blockers, and drive decisions as strategic direction evolves.
• Sound prioritization skills and the ability to manage stakeholder expectations with clarity and directness.
• Effective communication across contexts: briefing executives, explaining technical evaluation plans to policy teams, and coordinating with external researchers and engineers.
• Understanding of government contexts, including information security, inter-agency coordination, and policy development processes.
• Education: at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Logistics

• Locations: role can be based in San Francisco, Washington, DC, or London. The listing header shows San Francisco, CA and Washington, DC.
• Office policy: hybrid; Anthropic expects staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time (location-based hybrid policy).
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic does sponsor visas in many cases and retains an immigration lawyer, though sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role or candidate.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual base salary range: $230,000 - $265,000 USD. Total compensation for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.
• Other benefits mentioned: competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and access to office space for collaboration.

Other notes

Anthropic encourages applicants who may not meet every qualification to apply and highlights its commitment to diversity and inclusion in hiring.