Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

How they work

• Annual Salary: $245,000—$285,000 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.
• 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.

Eligibility

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 to apply

• Key responsibilities Own and maintain Anthropic's conventional weapons policy, defining the boundary between the activities our models should and should not support Build the threat models and evaluations that measure how our models could contribute to weapons development, including the software and autonomy components that define modern weapons systems, and keep them current as the technology and its misuse evolve Partner with engineering to turn the policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling Serve as the subject-matter expert for escalations involving conventional weapons content, including rapid response to emerging risks Build shared understanding of the policy across product, engineering, legal, and leadership, communicating its reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences Engage external experts as well as government and industry partners, and translate that engagement into stronger policy and enforcement Minimum qualifications Have deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and can translate complex technical evidence into sound policy judgments Experience in a relevant setting, such as a service research laboratory, a defense research or innovation agency, or a company that designs or builds weapons systems Can write clear, operationally precise policy and explain complex technical topics to non-specialist audiences Understand the legal frameworks governing weapons and their transfer, and can craft policy that holds up across jurisdictions Can do rigorous technical analysis of weapons systems using only open sources Are comfortable with ambiguity and drawn to problems that have no established playbook Are motivated by preventing misuse without obstructing the legitimate work in the field Preferred qualifications A working understanding of machine learning and large language model fundamentals Hands-on engineering experience in a weapons-relevant technical domain, such as systems engineering, robotics and autonomy, guidance/navigation/control, sensors and signal processing, aerospace or mechanical engineering, materials and energetics, or embedded software Hands-on experience applying arms export controls (ITAR/EAR) or international arms-control regimes Experience building or evaluating classifiers, including LLM-based ones, and reasoning about precision and recall for rare, high-consequence categories Trust & safety or product policy experience at a technology platform The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.