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Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Anthropic· Public Policy
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Washington, DC)$265k - $295kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Policy Development role focused on translating technical AI safety insights into policy proposals, developing technical governance ideas, and engaging with researchers and external stakeholders to shape frontier AI safety policy.

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

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

Skills

Required:Frontier AI safety and technical AI governanceLegislative text evaluationPolicy proposal development

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 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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