Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · Public Policy · listed October 13, 2026

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The shape of it

Seniority
Not stated
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$265,000 – $295,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
1,010 words

In the posting’s own words

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What it asks for · 6

  • 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

Also a plus

  • Are excited about standards work, and also want to contribute across the wider technical governance agenda
  • Have direct experience in an AI governance or safety research organization or frontier lab
  • Have experience working closely with standards bodies or industry consortia
  • Have experience developing and shaping technical legislation
  • Have published novel policy thinking on AI governance

What the job covers

  • 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

Tools and skills named

Security & compliance
  • Security

Words the posting leans on

  • policy13×
  • safety9×
  • technical9×
  • frontier7×
  • governance7×
  • development4×
  • research4×
  • standards4×
  • closely3×
  • experience3×
  • legislation3×
  • technical governance3×
  • alignment2×
  • contribute2×
  • cross-lab2×
  • develop2×

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