Technical Policy Lead, Government & Third-Party Safety Partnerships at Anthropic

About AnthropicAnthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.About the RoleAs Technical Policy Lead for Government and Third-Party Safety Partnerships youll advance Anthropics safety partnerships with governments and the broader third-party ecosystem. This is a hybrid role that is technically grounded but drives policy impact strengthening state capacity building a wider ecosystem for AI safety and developing shared standards in order to advance Anthropics mission to ensure the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI.Youll serve as the critical bridge between Anthropics Policy Frontier Red Team Alignment Safeguards and Legal teams on one side and government safety institutes and third-party evaluators on the other. Youll manage complex multi-stakeholder engagements spanning pre-deployment evaluations collaborative safety research information-sharing agreements and regulatory harmonization efforts. As AI capabilities advance these partnerships will be essential for providing trusted external validation of our safety efforts.Working within our International Policy team youll have significant autonomy to shape these partnerships. Were looking for someone who can be both a trusted partner to external counterparts and a thoughtful steward of Anthropics resources and priorities - someone who brings clear judgment about where to focus our efforts for maximum impact. This role exists to ensure our government and third-party safety partnerships are strategically coherent technically sound and structured in ways that scale globally.In this role you will:Identify collaboration opportunities that advance state capacity on AI safety strengthen the broader safety ecosystem and support Anthropic policy objectives for ASL-4 readiness and standards harmonizationDevelop frameworks for engaging with emerging government safety organizations to promoting a coherent global approach that leverages each countrys unique capabilitiesEvaluate and prioritize inbound requests from external safety organizations ensuring Anthropics engagement is focused on high-impact collaborationsOwn strategic alignment as well as day-to-day coordination with US CAISI UK AISI and other safety organizations relevant to policy serving as the primary operational point of contactManage research and testing collaborations covering pre/post-deployment evaluations safeguards testing and alignment researchCoordinate between internal teams in particular Policy Frontier Red Team Alignment Safeguards Legal and Communications to facilitate external safety partnershipsSupport Legal in negotiating and maintaining collaboration agreements and MOUsManage technical access provisions in accordance with agreement termsTrack external safety partnerships and provide timely updates to internal stakeholdersPosition external safety partnerships to provide decision-relevant information for internal safety teams and processes such as in safety cases and enable trusted independent evaluation and validation of our models and processesRepresent Anthropic at external conferences and speaking engagementsYou may be a good fit if you:Have direct experience with government or third-party safety organizations. You may have previously worked with or at US CAISI UK AISI METR Apollo or equivalent organizations in research technical program management or operations roles. You understand how these organizations operate from the inside.Have a technical background in AI safety-relevant areas. You should have sufficient technical experience to engage credibly with evaluation methodologies understand alignment and safeguards concepts and partner with internal technical staff to solve problems. You should also have familiarity with safety standards such as our Responsible Scaling policy and the EU Code of Practice.Excel at multi-stakeholder coordination. You should have a proven track record managing complex programs that span research policy legal and communications teams with differing priorities.Are comfortable making judgment calls in ambiguous situations. You can synthesize incomplete information from multiple teams identify blockers and drive decisions when strategic direction is evolving.Exercise sound judgment on prioritization. You can focus effort where it matters most and manage stakeholder expectations effectively with clarity and directness.Communicate effectively across contexts. You are equally comfortable briefing executives on partnership strategy explaining technical evaluation plans to policy teams and managing day-to-day coordination with external researchers and engineers.Understand government contexts. You are familiar with how government agencies operate including considerations around information security inter-agency coordination and policy development processes.This role can be based in San Francisco Washington DC or London.The expectedbase compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity benefits and may include incentive compensation.Annual Salary:$230000 - $265000 USDLogisticsEducation requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.How were differentWe believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.Come work with us!Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. 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