Senior Safeguards Policy Lead, Cyber Harms

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s 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 role

We're looking for a senior policy leader to own how Anthropic governs access to its most sensitive cyber-relevant model capabilities. You'll consolidate our controlled-access framework, keep our cyber-related product policy commitments current as standards shift, and serve as Anthropic's primary point of contact with government and regulatory stakeholders. This role works closely with regulators, partners, and the broader coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure community.

You don't need to write code in this role, but you should be comfortable engaging deeply with technical material — probes, classifiers, and trusted-access programs — and translating it into policy that holds up under scrutiny.

Key responsibilities

Own Anthropic's access-requirements policy and lead consolidation of the controlled-access framework across existing and emerging access programs

Keep Anthropic's cyber-related policy commitments current with shifting industry and regulatory standards, and ensure they map cleanly to our technical safeguards

Serve as Anthropic's primary policy interface with government and regulatory stakeholders

Build and maintain relationships across the coordinated vulnerability disclosure, cybersecurity policy, and national security communities

Author and maintain reporting to partners and regulators

Translate technical evaluation and safeguard work into policy positions and external-facing standards engagement

Engage closely with technical teams to understand the capabilities of probes and classifiers relevant to access policy

Minimum qualifications

Experience engaging directly with the US government and regulatory parties on matters related to cybersecurity

Experience authoring policy positions, formal reporting, or regulatory responses for government audiences

Extensive experience in cybersecurity policy, including coordinated vulnerability disclosure 

Preferred qualifications

Experience coordinating sensitive pre-release or pre-publication engagement between a company and government partners (e.g., pre-deployment testing, incident notification, regulatory pre-briefs)

Familiarity with government information-sharing and incident-notification frameworks

Experience engaging directly with government agencies, regulators, or standards bodies on cybersecurity matters, including on AI

Ability to read and interpret technical security material, such as capability evaluations, vulnerability reports, or threat assessments

Established relationships across government and regulatory bodies focused on cybersecurity 

A background spanning legal, technical, and policy disciplines related to vulnerabilities and disclosure

Active secret security clearance or higher, or eligibility to obtain one

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary: $285,000 — $330,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study:  A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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