Conventional Weapons Policy Lead

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 245.000 - 285.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards role to define the boundaries for conventional weapons use, building threat models, evaluations, and enforcement systems that ensure safe, responsible AI applications.

The role requires translating technical judgments into robust policy, collaborating across engineering, legal, and leadership, and guiding decisions on dual-use capabilities and defense-related risks.

Competenze

• Have deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and translate complex technical evidence into policy judgments.
• Experience in a service research laboratory, defense research or innovation agency, or weapons-systems company.
• Write clear, operational policy and explain complex topics to non-specialists.
• Understand legal frameworks governing weapons and transfers across jurisdictions.
• Can perform rigorous open-source technical analysis of weapons systems.
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and drawn to problems without a playbook.
• Motivated by preventing misuse while enabling legitimate work.

Mansioni

• Own and maintain conventional weapons policy, defining the boundary of supported activities.
• Build threat models and evaluations to measure how models could contribute to weapons development.
• Turn policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling with engineering teams.
• Serve as the SME for escalations involving conventional weapons content and rapid risk response.
• Communicate policy reasoning across product, engineering, legal, and leadership.
• Engage external experts and government/industry partners to strengthen policy and enforcement.

Conoscenze

Weapons systems

Policy judgment

Technical analysis

Ambiguity tolerance

Explain complex topics

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree

Descrizione del lavoro

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards role to define the boundaries for conventional weapons use, building threat models, evaluations, and enforcement systems that ensure safe, responsible AI applications.

The role requires translating technical judgments into robust policy, collaborating across engineering, legal, and leadership, and guiding decisions on dual-use capabilities and defense-related risks.