Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute

Job Description

You will build and lead the Institute's tabletop exercise program and team. Based on trends and in consultation with technical experts, you will set the research agenda, design exercises, and turn results into findings. You will hire and manage a team and be the program's public voice.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the program's research agenda and design exercises as empirical studies
• Build the program's measurement tools and turn results into findings
• Hire, manage, and develop a team and a bench of facilitators
• Make the program scalable and build a facilitator kit
• Create and direct the tools behind the exercises, including Claude-driven simulations

Requirements

• Experience designing and running tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers
• Training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods, or structured analysis
• 10+ years of experience in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy
• Strong grasp of AI capabilities and safety research
• Experience managing a team
• Extensive use of Claude and other AI tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Published research on wargaming methods, simulation, or crisis decision-making
• Experience running exercises that fed into real policy or crisis-response decisions
• Existing relationships across national security, government, policy, and AI

Logistics

• Annual salary: $295,000-$295,000 USD
• Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time
• Visa sponsorship available