Frontier AI Policy Architect - Hybrid & Flexible Hours

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring for a Policy Development role focused on technical governance and safety policy. You will translate technical insights into new policy ideas, work with research, alignment, safety, and legal teams, and help shape frontier AI legislation.

You will drive safety practices, engage with external stakeholders, and develop policy proposals addressing AI R&D acceleration while maintaining clear communication with leadership.

Qualifications

• Fluent knowledge of frontier AI safety and technical AI governance.
• Ability to read legislative text and provide useful commentary.
• Expertise in topics such as loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, and risk reporting.
• Clear writing for researchers, leadership, and policymakers.
• Ability to quickly learn new technical topics and translate them to policy.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to own a project end to end.

Responsibilities

• Help develop technical safety best practices and standards for frontier development, working closely with policy, research, and safeguards teams.
• Support cross-lab discussions and initiatives and serve as the Anthropic representative in key standards initiatives and groups.
• Review and give substantive input on federal, state, and global frontier AI safety bills, including risk reporting, independent evaluation, and incident reporting, helping shape AI safety legislation development.
• Work with external affairs policy teams to strengthen frontier AI legislative framework.
• Contribute research and analysis across policy team pacing workstreams, including developing novel policy proposals that address challenges related to the acceleration of AI R&D.
• Engage with the external AI safety and governance community to track new thinking and feed it into our own.
• Write clear memos and briefings that help leadership align on decisions.

Skills

Frontier AI safety

AI governance

Policy analysis

Legislation reading

Technical translation

Project ownership

Written communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Anthropic is hiring for a Policy Development role focused on technical governance and safety policy. You will translate technical insights into new policy ideas, work with research, alignment, safety, and legal teams, and help shape frontier AI legislation.

You will drive safety practices, engage with external stakeholders, and develop policy proposals addressing AI R&D acceleration while maintaining clear communication with leadership.