National Security Partnerships Lead, Intelligence and International Security

Anthropic; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring a National Security Partnerships Lead to grow and manage relationships with the U.S. Intelligence Community and allied services. You will advise leadership on intelligence matters and own government partnerships from agenda setting to agreements, coordinating with policy, product, and safeguards teams.

You will help shape policies to enable safe, high-impact deployments of frontier AI and engage officials on international deployment frameworks. Travel within the U.S.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in national security, including work in or with the Intelligence Community.
• Active TS/SCI clearance, or recently held, with ability to obtain/maintain.
• Experience negotiating formal government or government-industry partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagement with U.S. Intelligence Community elements and allied services.
• Help develop policies enabling rapid, high-impact adoption of frontier AI.
• Structure agreements and channels for each government relationship, relay partner requirements to policy/product teams.
• Brief senior policymakers and officials on frontier AI capabilities, risks, and Anthropic's approach to safety.
• Collaborate with public sector sales, legal, security, and other teams on national security matters.

Skills

National security experience

Intelligence Community

Policy briefing

Cross-functional collaboration

Public sector engagement

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.

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

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.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:

Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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.