Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Anthropic; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a technical policy advisor to work with governments and international bodies, shaping frontier AI strategy and safety frameworks. You will collaborate with Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams to enable Claude in public missions, including cyber defense, while communicating complex topics clearly to diverse audiences.

Role emphasizes travel, global collaboration, and advancing safe AI systems with a mission-driven, public-benefit orientation.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in Customer Engineer/Forward Deployed Engineer/Solutions Architect-like roles with governments or international orgs
• Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs
• Proven ability to design novel solutions for technical platforms in mission areas
• Familiarity with how AI models are evaluated for safety
• Strong Python proficiency and ability to work with engineers

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary technical advisor for senior officials in partner governments, AISIs, and international institutions.
• Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites to support Claude in public missions like cyber defense.
• Lead onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies.
• Be the voice of our international partners with Product and Research teams.
• Travel internationally for senior leader meetings and relationship-building.
• Establish a shared vision for safe and beneficial AI solutions.
• Lead vision and execution of innovative Claude-based solutions.

Skills

Policy experience

Python programming

LLM fundamentals

Cross‑org collaboration

Technical advisory

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Claude Code

Claude API

Job description

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

As a member of the International Policy Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor to governments, AI Safety Institutes (AISIs), and multilateral institutions. You'll use your technical skills and your experience with government partners to help them understand frontier AI, test it, and apply it to their public missions with a high degree of reliability and safety. This role serves Anthropic's policy, mission, and public benefit goals.

In collaboration with the Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you'll help partners develop strategies and plans to evaluate and adopt leading-edge AI systems. You will use your excellent communication skills to explain complex topics, including the potential benefits and harms of frontier AI, to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will also play a critical role in identifying how our AI systems can best serve public interests around the world, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Act as a primary technical advisor for senior officials in partner governments, AISIs, and international institutions. Brief them on frontier AI capabilities, give an honest account of both benefits and harms, and explain safety research in terms that inform their decisions.


• Partner closely with the Policy team to understand each partner’s goals and requirements. Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that show how Claude can support their public missions, such as cyber defense.


• Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands‑on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies. Guide their setup, architecture, and integration as they build with Claude Code and the Claude API.


• Act as the voice of our international partners and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure we deliver the capabilities they need.


• Travel internationally to partner institutions for senior leader meetings, technical enablement, and building relationships.


• Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI.


• Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models’ capabilities.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 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


• Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area


• Familiarity with how AI models are evaluated and tested for safety


• Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)


• Understanding of and experience with LLM fundamentals


• The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions


• Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities


• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders, from engineers to senior government officials


• Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings (\"OTE\") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary

$240,000—$315,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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 collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest‑impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT‑3, Circuit‑Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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