Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Location: New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Washington, D.C. Hybrid policy requires staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more office attendance.

Annual salary: $265,000–$295,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Develop technical safety best practices and standards for frontier AI development with policy, research, and safeguards teams.
• Support cross-lab initiatives and represent Anthropic in standards organizations and related groups.
• Review federal, state, and global frontier AI safety legislation, including risk reporting, independent evaluation, and incident reporting requirements.
• Strengthen the frontier AI legislative framework with external affairs policy teams.
• Develop policy proposals addressing challenges created by accelerating AI research and development.
• Track developments in the external AI safety and governance community and write clear memos and briefings for leadership.

Requirements

• Fluency in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance, including major players, proposals, and debates.
• Ability to read legislative text and provide substantive comments.
• Expertise in at least one area such as loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance, independent evaluation, model weight security, or risk reporting.
• Clear writing skills for researchers, leadership, and policymakers.
• Ability to learn technical topics quickly, work through ambiguity, and own projects end to end.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience in an AI governance or safety research organization or frontier lab.
• Experience working with standards bodies or industry consortia.
• Experience developing and shaping technical legislation.
• Published original policy thinking on AI governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across policy, research, alignment, safety, and legal teams.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment designed for collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration lawyer support, depending on the role and candidate.