Policy Development, Technical AI Governance

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Policy Development team translates technical insights into workable new policy ideas for governing frontier AI.

As a policy analyst, you will drive work on technical and cross-lab safety practices, deepen work on frontier AI legislation, and develop new technical governance ideas.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop technical safety best practices and standards for frontier development
• Support cross-lab discussions and initiatives
• Review and provide input on federal, state, and global frontier AI safety bills
• Work with external affairs policy teams to strengthen the frontier AI legislative framework
• Contribute research and analysis across policy team's pacing workstreams
• Engage with the external AI safety and governance community
• Write clear memos and briefings for leadership

Minimum qualifications:

• Fluent in frontier AI safety and technical AI governance
• Can read legislative text and comment usefully
• Expertise in domains like loss-of-control, alignment, compute governance
• Write clearly for researchers, leadership, and policymakers
• Can pick up new technical topics quickly and translate them to policy
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can own projects end-to-end

Preferred qualifications:

• Excited about standards work and contributing to technical governance
• Direct experience in AI governance or safety research organization
• Experience working 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.