National Security Policy Lead, Cyber

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

Anthropic is looking for a Cyber Policy Lead to lead our work on the cybersecurity dimensions of frontier AI policy. Reporting to the Head of National Security Policy, you will shape and lead Anthropic's external policy posture on cyber issues across the U.S. federal government, allied democracies, and critical infrastructure communities, and will help shape how Anthropic supports defenders during a critical period in AI development and governance.

You will be a senior member of the National Security Policy team reporting to the Head of National Security Policy. You will serve as Anthropic's principal cyber policy voice with the federal government and Congress, sector risk management agencies, and allied government counterparts. You will translate Anthropic's research on frontier model cyber capabilities into concrete policy proposals, partnership opportunities, and meaningful contributions to public debates, and ensure that Anthropic's voice helps tilt the cyber balance toward defense.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and lead Anthropic's external cyber policy strategy across U.S. federal stakeholders, allied governments, and critical infrastructure sector regulators

• Serve as Anthropic's day-to-day point of contact for senior cyber policymakers, sector risk management agencies, and allied counterparts on issues at the intersection of frontier AI and cybersecurity

• Shape Anthropic's own policies and approaches to mitigating cyber risks involving its products, including offensive cyber misuse, vulnerability discovery and disclosure, and commitments under our Responsible Scaling Policy

• Develop strategies for AI to strengthen the cyber resilience of the United States, allied democracies, and operators of critical infrastructure

• Support and promote collaborations with cyber defenders across the public and private sectors, including on model testing, red teaming, threat intelligence sharing, and defensive deployment of frontier AI

• Collaborate with technical teams, including the Frontier Red Team and Safeguards, to translate cyber threat model research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and public contributions

• Engage in thought leadership and planning for the changes that increasingly capable AI may bring to the global cyber landscape, including implications for offense-defense balance, attribution, and norms

• Partner closely with the Head of National Security Policy, the broader Public Policy team, the public sector go-to-market team, Legal, Communications, Trust and Safety, Product, and Research to ensure coherent execution across cyber workstreams

Minimum qualifications

• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance or held one in the last two years, and have the ability to obtain and maintain one

• Have a track record of effective, information-rich advocacy with cyber regulators, sector risk management agencies, and Congressional committees of jurisdiction

• Bring deep familiarity with the institutions and authorities that shape U.S. cyber policy, including CISA, ONCD, NSC, DOD, the IC, and the relevant Congressional committees, as well as allied cyber agencies in the Five Eyes and beyond

• Are adept at working with diverse cross-functional teams, including but not limited to technical research, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, communications, and marketing

• Have experience designing and advocating for concrete cyber policy and regulatory proposals

• Possess exceptional written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing senior policymakers and government officials

• Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently while accounting for dependencies across teams

• Have demonstrated interest and experience in a complicated technical subject (ideally AI, but other examples could be cryptography, vulnerability research, quantum computing, or fusion power)

Preferred qualifications

• Have 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity policy roles across government, the private sector, or both, with senior-level exposure to U.S. federal cyber policymaking and international counterparts

• Direct prior experience at CISA, ONCD, NSC, the National Cyber Director's office, NSA, U.S. Cyber Command, DOD CIO, or comparable allied cyber institutions

• Experience leading or supporting public-private cyber partnerships at scale

• Experience contributing to national and / or Departmental cyber policy frameworks (e.g., national cyber strategies, secure-by-design initiatives, software liability frameworks, or international cyber norms processes)

• Operational government cybersecurity and / or offensive cyber experience

• Familiarity with critical infrastructure sector dynamics across multiple sectors

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.

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.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.