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Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute

Anthropic· Public Benefit
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full-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Lead and build the Institute’s tabletop exercise program, defining research agendas, scenarios, measurement, and outcomes; manage a team and external facilitators; serve as the program’s public voice and ensure findings are usable outside the room.

Responsibilities

  • Set the program’s research agenda: the questions exercises should answer, the scenarios to run, and the audience for each
  • Design exercises as empirical studies: define what each run tests, standardize scenarios and data capture so results are comparable, and use repeated play to map the range of outcomes
  • Build the program’s measurement: pre- and post-exercise assessments, decision logs, transcript analysis and after-action reports
  • Turn results into findings: publish on what the exercises show, and brief senior people inside and outside Anthropic on the gaps they expose
  • Hire, manage and develop a team and a bench of facilitators
  • Make the program scalable: maintain a library of tested scenarios that the team reuses most of the time, refreshed on a regular cadence so they stay timely
  • Build a facilitator kit ("TTX in a box") so other internal teams or external partners can run exercises to the same standard
  • Create and direct the tools behind the exercises, including Claude-driven simulations that generate a live outside-world feed during play

Qualifications

  • Have designed and run tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers and published on the subject
  • Have training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods or structured analysis
  • Have 10+ years of experience in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy
  • Can keep the scenarios technically grounded with a strong grasp of AI capabilities and safety research
  • Have managed a team, including hiring, setting direction, giving feedback and developing people
  • Use Claude and other AI tools extensively in your own work
  • Care about AI safety and Anthropic's public benefit mission

Skills

Required:Tabletop/wargaming design and executionExperimentation and empirical study designTeam leadership and people developmentAI tooling (Claude and other AI tools)

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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

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