Public Policy Lead, National Security

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are looking for a National Security Lead to guide our strategic engagements with the U.S. national security and intelligence communities. This senior role will shape Anthropic's approach to national security policy and partnerships during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will serve as a key advisor to company leadership on frontier models’ national security implications, and will translate policy impacting developments to senior contacts across the defense, intelligence, and law enforcement communities. You will also partner closely with our public sector sales team to support public sector deployment of Claude in use cases that strengthen national security, enhance government efficiency, and accelerate US competitiveness.

Responsibilities:

• Lead policy engagement on issues related to government use and national security implications of frontier models
• Engage key NatSec policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables) across the Executive branch and Congress
• Partner with public sector sales team to support commercial efforts involving governmental agency deployments
• Support and promote public-private research collaborations and model testing efforts
• Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, and academics to share knowledge and build standardization in NatSec related threat model testing
• Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic threat model research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 10+ years of experience working in national security agencies and/or relevant Congressional offices or committees, or a combination of government and related private sector experience
• Hold active TS/SCI clearance or held one in the last two years and the ability to obtain/maintain one
• Have a track record of effective, information-rich advocacy with government regulatory authorities
• Are adept at working with diverse cross functional teams (including but not limited to trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing)
• Have experience designing and advocating for concrete policy and regulatory proposals for both consumer and enterprise technology products
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials
• Have demonstrated interest and experience in a complicated technical subject (ideally, AI, but other examples could be quantum computing, cryptography, fusion power, etc.)

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:$325,000—$370,000 USD

Logistics

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborati