Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

AI Chopping Block; New York (NY); On-site; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a strategic role within the Safeguards organization to define boundaries on conventional weapons-related work and translate technical judgments into actionable policy across the organization.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, model guardrails, and rapid response to emerging risks, with collaboration across engineering, legal, and leadership teams to ensure responsible AI development.

Qualifications

• Deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and ability to translate complex evidence into policy judgments.
• Experience explaining complex topics to non-specialists across functions.
• Understanding legal frameworks governing weapons and transfers across jurisdictions.
• Ability to perform rigorous technical analysis of weapons systems using open sources.
• Comfort with ambiguity and solving problems without a defined playbook.
• Motivation to prevent misuse while enabling legitimate research and engineering work.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain Anthropic's conventional weapons policy, defining boundaries for models.
• Build threat models and evaluations to measure model contributions to weapons development, including software and autonomy.
• Partner with engineering to turn policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling.
• Serve as subject-matter expert for escalations involving conventional weapons content and rapid risk response.
• Communicate policy reasoning across product, engineering, legal and leadership teams.
• Engage external experts and government/industry partners to strengthen policy and enforcement.

Skills

Weapons policy

Policy translation

Clear written communication

Legal frameworks knowledge

Open-source analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a strategic role within the Safeguards organization to define boundaries on conventional weapons-related work and translate technical judgments into actionable policy across the organization.

The role emphasizes threat modeling, model guardrails, and rapid response to emerging risks, with collaboration across engineering, legal, and leadership teams to ensure responsible AI development.