Anthropic
Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute
$295K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy. The posting also says years required will correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; a 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 says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build and lead a research program that designs, runs, measures, and publishes findings from tabletop exercises on decisions involving powerful AI.
What you'll do
- Set the research agenda and design repeatable exercises, scenarios, measurements, and data capture.
- Publish findings and brief senior audiences on the gaps exercises expose.
- Hire and manage a team and facilitators, develop reusable scenarios and kits, and direct exercise tools including Claude-driven simulations.
What they ask for
- Have designed and run tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers and published on the subject.
- Have training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods or structured analysis.
- Have 10+ years of experience in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy.
- Have a strong grasp of AI capabilities and safety research, team-management experience, and extensive use of Claude and other AI tools.
Nice to have
- Published research on wargaming, simulation, or crisis decision-making; or run exercises informing real policy or crisis-response decisions.
- Experience with multi-iteration or experimental wargames, AI agents or language models in simulations, or leading a growing research program.
Pay
$295,000 — $295,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Claude, AI agents, language models
AI focus
Design and direct Claude-driven simulations that generate a live outside-world feed during exercises; use AI tools extensively and potentially AI agents or language models as simulation players, adjudicators, or analysts.
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