Anthropic
Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons
$245K–$285K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Washington, DC
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa and provides an immigration lawyer.
About the job
Own Anthropic’s conventional weapons policy and develop the threat models, evaluations, and enforcement systems that distinguish prohibited weapons development from legitimate research and engineering.
What you'll do
- Maintain the conventional weapons policy and define which activities models should support.
- Build threat models and evaluations, and partner with engineering on guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling.
- Handle weapons-related escalations and communicate policy to internal teams and external partners.
What they ask for
- Deep, applied expertise in weapons systems and ability to translate technical evidence into policy judgments.
- Experience in a relevant setting, such as a service research laboratory, defense research or innovation agency, or weapons-systems company.
- Ability to write operationally precise policy, explain technical topics to non-specialists, and understand legal frameworks governing weapons and their transfer.
- Ability to rigorously analyze weapons systems using open sources.
Nice to have
- Working understanding of machine learning and large language model fundamentals.
- Relevant hands-on engineering, arms-control/export-control, classifier evaluation, or technology trust-and-safety/product-policy experience.
Pay
$245,000 — $285,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
machine learning, large language model, LLM-based
AI focus
Develop policy, threat models, evaluations, guardrails, detection systems, and enforcement tooling to prevent AI models from contributing to conventional weapons development while allowing legitimate work.
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