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Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Anthropic· Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Washington, DC)$245k - $285kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Role within Anthropic's Safeguards organization responsible for owning and developing conventional weapons policy, threat models, evaluations, and enforcement tooling; serves as expert on conventional weapons content and liaises with product, engineering, legal, and leadership, including external partners.

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

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

Skills

Required:Weapons systems expertisePolicy writing and communicationStakeholder engagement

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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