Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Highlights

• Own Anthropic's conventional weapons policy for how Claude can be used.
• Build threat models and evaluations for weapons-related misuse.
• Partner with engineering to turn policy into model guardrails.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

Weapons-systems expert comfortable with ambiguity who translates complex technical evidence into sound policy to prevent misuse without blocking legitimate research.

Requirements

• Deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and ability to translate technical evidence into policy judgments
• Experience in a service research laboratory, defense research or innovation agency, or weapons systems company
• Ability to write clear, operationally precise policy and explain technical topics to non-specialists
• Understanding of legal frameworks governing weapons and their transfer across jurisdictions
• Ability to do rigorous technical analysis of weapons systems using only open sources
• Comfortable with ambiguity and problems with no established playbook
• Motivated by preventing misuse without obstructing legitimate work