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Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Anthropic 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States

$245,000 - $285,000 Full-time Senior

The role involves owning and maintaining Anthropic's conventional weapons policy to define boundaries between acceptable and harmful model use. This includes building threat models, evaluations, and partnering with engineering to implement model guardrails and detection systems.

Responsibilities

  • The role involves owning and maintaining Anthropic's conventional weapons policy to define boundaries between acceptable and harmful model use. This includes building threat models, evaluations, and partnering with engineering to implement model guardrails and detection systems.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have deep applied expertise in weapons systems and experience in defense research or industry, with the ability to write precise policy. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field and knowledge of legal frameworks governing weapons transfer are required.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space

Key Skills

Policy development Threat modeling Risk evaluation Model guardrails design Detection system design Weapons systems expertise Defense research Legal framework knowledge Technical writing Cross‑functional partnership Strategic analysis Communication Project management

About Anthropic

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

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