# Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: New York City, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $265,000-$295,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

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.

As a policy analyst in our Policy Development team, you will drive our work on technical and cross-lab safety practices, deepen our work on frontier AI legislation, and develop new technical governance ideas that you pressure-test with researchers and carry into policy proposals.

## Key Responsibilities

- 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.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance: the main players, proposals, and debates.

- Can read legislative text and comment usefully on it.

- 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.

- Comfortable with ambiguity and can own a project end to end.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Excited about standards work, and also want to contribute across the wider technical governance agenda.

- Direct experience in an AI governance or safety research organization or frontier lab.

- Experience working closely with standards bodies or industry consortia.

- Experience developing and shaping technical legislation.

- Published novel policy thinking on AI governance.

The annual compensation range for this role is $265,000-$295,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- frontier AI safety
- technical AI governance
- legislative text analysis
- policy proposal development

### Nice to have
- standards work
- AI governance
- safety research
- technical legislation development

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