Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Anthropic; Washington, Baltimore (District of Columbia, MD); Hybrid; USD 265,000 - 295,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space to collaborate

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Policy Development professional to translate technical AI safety concepts into workable policy ideas. You will drive safety practices, participate in standards groups, and review frontier AI legislation across federal, state, and international contexts.

You’ll collaborate with policy, research, alignment, safety, and legal teams, moving between technical detail and how policy gets made. This role emphasizes writing clear memos and shaping governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• Are fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance: the main players, proposals, and debates
• Can read legislative text and comment usefully on it
• Have expertise in any of the domains: loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, risk reporting
• Write clearly for researchers, leadership, and policymakers
• Can pick up new technical topics quickly and translate them to the broader policy landscape
• Are 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

Policy advocacy

Legislation analysis

Clear writing

Stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

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 Anthropic believes AI capabilities are improving rapidly, and that AI safety policy needs to keep pace. Our Policy Development team translates technical insights into workable new policy ideas for governing frontier AI. As a member of the Policy Development team, you will drive our work on technical and cross-lab safety practices, deepen our work on frontier AI legislation, and develop new technical governance ideas that you pressure-test with researchers and carry into policy proposals. You will work closely with policy colleagues and with research, alignment, safety, and legal teams, and you’ll move easily between technical detail and how policy actually gets made.

Key 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

Minimum Qualifications

• Are fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance: the main players, proposals, and debates
• Can read legislative text and comment usefully on it
• Have expertise in any of the following domains: loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, risk reporting
• Write clearly for researchers, leadership, and policymakers
• Can pick up new technical topics quickly and translate them to the broader policy landscape
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can own a project end to end

Preferred Qualifications

• Are excited about standards work, and also want to contribute across the wider technical governance agenda
• Have direct experience in an AI governance or safety research organization or frontier lab
• Have experience working closely with standards bodies or industry consortia
• Have experience developing and shaping technical legislation
• Have published novel policy thinking on AI governance

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary

$265,000—$295,000 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• A lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues

Anthropic is headquartered in San Francisco.

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.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.