National Security Partnerships Lead, Intelligence and International Security

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Northern, New York (KY, NY)

Hybrid

USD 295,000 - 345,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a National Security Partnerships Lead to grow and manage relationships with the U.S. Intelligence Community and allied security services.

You will report to the Head of National Security Policy and advise leadership on intelligence and partner matters. You will own end-to-end government partnerships, structuring agreements and channels, and aligning partner requirements with policy, product, research, and safeguards decisions.

Qualifications

Extensive national security experience with the Intelligence Community.
Experience managing government partnerships and negotiations.
Active TS/SCI clearance or recent access and ability to maintain it.
Ability to brief senior policymakers clearly and succinctly.
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams across policy, product, legal, and security.

Responsibilities

Lead engagement with U.S. Intelligence Community elements and allied services.
Develop policies and governance enabling rapid, high-impact frontier AI adoption safely.
Identify high-leverage national security deployments and support sales delivery.
Brief senior government security officials on frontier AI capabilities and risks.
Advise leadership on partner equities in international deployment decisions.
Coordinate with federal affairs, international policy, comms, and marketing on security matters.
Travel regularly within the U.S. and to allied countries.

Skills

National security experience

Intelligence Community

Government partnerships

Policy briefing

Cross-functional teamwork

AI/defense tech familiarity

Communication of complex topics

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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

We are hiring a National Security Partnerships Lead to grow and manage our relationships with the U.S. Intelligence Community and with allied intelligence and security services. You will report to the Head of National Security Policy and advise company leadership on intelligence and allied-partner matters.

You will help partner security organizations build policies that let them adopt frontier AI quickly and for high-impact missions, while deploying it safely and avoiding incidents. You will also engage U.S. and foreign government officials on the policy frameworks that guide the international distribution and deployment of Anthropic's models.

You will own a portfolio of government partnerships end to end: setting the agenda with senior counterparts, structuring the agreements and channels that govern each relationship, and bringing partner requirements and concerns back into Anthropic's policy, product, research, and safeguards decisions. You will work closely with our public sector sales, legal, security, and threat intelligence teams.

Key responsibilities

Lead Anthropic's strategic engagement with U.S. Intelligence Community elements and allied intelligence and security services.
Help partner security organizations develop the policies and governance that enable rapid, high-impact adoption of frontier AI and safe deployments that avoid incidents.
Identify high-leverage national security deployments with partners, and support our public sector sales team in delivering them.
Brief senior government security officials in the U.S. and allied capitals on frontier AI capabilities, risks, and Anthropic's approach to safety.
Engage U.S. and foreign government officials on the national security implications of the international distribution and deployment of Anthropic's models, and advise company leadership on partner equities in those decisions.
Partner with federal affairs, international policy, communications, and marketing on national security matters, including engagement with the Executive Branch and Congress.
Travel regularly within the U.S. and to allied countries.

Minimum qualifications

Substantial experience in national security, including work in or with the Intelligence Community.
Direct experience managing relationships with foreign partner governments or services.
An active TS/SCI clearance, or one held within the last two years, and the ability to obtain and maintain it.
Experience negotiating formal agreements or partnerships between governments, or between government and industry.
A working understanding of how intelligence organizations operate, including classification, liaison relationships, and how they adopt new technology, and the ability to get things done within those constraints.
The ability to brief senior policymakers and officials clearly, and to explain technical subjects without overstating them.
Experience working effectively with cross-functional teams, including technical, sales, policy, trust and safety, legal, security, product, research, and communications.
Demonstrated interest and experience in a complex technical subject, ideally AI, though defense technology, cybersecurity, or similar fields also count.
The ability to build structure where little exists and to manage competing priorities without waiting for perfect clarity.

Preferred qualifications

10+ years of experience in national security, including substantial work in or with the Intelligence Community.
Experience in a liaison, foreign partnership, or foreign disclosure role.
Experience in related private-sector roles, such as at technology, cybersecurity, or defense companies.
Regional expertise or language skills relevant to allied partners.
Hands-on familiarity with large language models and how they can be misused.

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:

$295,000—$345,000 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.