Frontier AI Policy & Governance Lead

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Policy Analyst to advance technical safety practices and governance for frontier AI. The role collaborates across policy, research, alignment, safety, and legal teams to translate technical insights into policy proposals.

You will review legislation, contribute to standards initiatives, and craft memos for leadership alignment. This hybrid NY-area position emphasizes rapid policy development and cross-disciplinary engagement.

Qualifications

• Fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance: the main players, proposals, and debates.
• Can read legislative text and comment usefully on it.
• Expertise in loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, risk reporting.
• Write clearly for researchers, leadership, and policymakers.
• Can translate technical topics to the broader policy landscape.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can 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 on risk reporting, independent evaluation, and incident reporting, helping shape AI safety legislation development
• Work with our external affairs policy teams to strengthen our frontier AI legislative framework
• Contribute research and analysis across the policy team's 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

Legislative analysis

Policy writing

Ambiguity tolerance

Project ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Policy Analyst to advance technical safety practices and governance for frontier AI. The role collaborates across policy, research, alignment, safety, and legal teams to translate technical insights into policy proposals.

You will review legislation, contribute to standards initiatives, and craft memos for leadership alignment. This hybrid NY-area position emphasizes rapid policy development and cross-disciplinary engagement.