Conventional Weapons Policy Architect

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic's Safeguards team defines the boundaries of acceptable and harmful content for conventional weapons policy. You will own the policy, develop threat models, and help translate complex judgments into practical guardrails for models and enforcement tooling.

The role spans policy enforcement, risk assessment, and collaboration with engineering, legal, and leadership to balance responsible research with legitimate work.

Qualifications

• Have deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and can translate complex evidence into policy judgments.
• Experience in a research laboratory, defense-related setting, or weapons-design company.
• Able to write clear, precise policy and explain topics to non-specialists.
• Understand the legal frameworks governing weapons and transfers across jurisdictions.
• Capable of rigorous open-source technical analysis of weapons systems.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and pursuing problems without a playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Anthropic's conventional weapons policy.
• Build threat models and evaluations that measure how our models could contribute to weapons development, including the software and autonomy components that define modern weapons systems, and keep them current as the technology and its misuse evolve
• Partner with engineering to turn the policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for escalations involving conventional weapons content, including rapid response to emerging risks
• Build shared understanding of the policy across product, engineering, legal, and leadership, communicating its reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences
• Engage external experts as well as government and industry partners, and translate that engagement into stronger policy and enforcement

Skills

Weapons systems expertise

Policy drafting & communication

Open-source technical analysis

Policy enforcement tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Field relevant to role

Job description

Anthropic's Safeguards team defines the boundaries of acceptable and harmful content for conventional weapons policy. You will own the policy, develop threat models, and help translate complex judgments into practical guardrails for models and enforcement tooling.

The role spans policy enforcement, risk assessment, and collaboration with engineering, legal, and leadership to balance responsible research with legitimate work.