Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Job summary

Responsibilities

Anthropic's Safeguards organization builds the policies, evaluations, and enforcement systems that define and hold the limits on how Claude can be used. In this role, you'll own our conventional weapons work.

• Own and maintain Anthropic's conventional weapons policy, defining the boundary between the activities our models should and should not support
• Build the threat models and evaluations that measure how our models could contribute to weapons development, including the software and autonomy components that define modern…
• Partner with engineering to turn the policy into model guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for escalations involving conventional weapons content, including rapid response to emerging risks
• Build shared understanding of the policy across product, engineering, legal, and leadership, communicating its reasoning to technical and non-technical audiences

What they're looking for

• Have deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and can translate complex technical evidence into sound policy judgments
• Experience in a relevant setting, such as a service research laboratory, a defense research or innovation agency, or a company that designs or builds weapons systems
• Can write clear, operationally precise policy and explain complex technical topics to non-specialist audiences
• Understand the legal frameworks governing weapons and their transfer, and can craft policy that holds up across jurisdictions
• Can do rigorous technical analysis of weapons systems using only open sources