Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Washington, DC. Hybrid work with staff expected to be in an office at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $240,000–$315,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Advise senior officials in governments, AI Safety Institutes, and international institutions on frontier AI capabilities, benefits, harms, and safety research.
• Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites showing how Claude can support public missions, including cyber defense.
• Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies.
• Guide architecture, setup, and integrations using Claude Code and the Claude API.
• Represent international partners in collaboration with Product, Research, Engineering, and Policy teams.
• Travel internationally for senior leader meetings, technical enablement, and relationship building.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer working with governments, international organizations, or the public sector.
• Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs.
• Strong technical aptitude and proficiency in at least one programming language, preferably Python.
• Understanding of LLM fundamentals and experience evaluating and testing AI models for safety.
• Excellent communication skills for explaining complex topics to engineers, senior government officials, and other stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience designing novel solutions for technical platforms in developing mission areas.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, work across domains, and balance competing priorities.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment spanning research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and a location-based hybrid work policy.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship may be available; Anthropic provides immigration lawyer support and evaluates sponsorship by role and candidate.
• Frequent research discussions focused on steerable and trustworthy AI.

Hiring process

• Applicants may use AI in the application process according to Anthropic’s candidate AI usage guidance.