Lucid Computing
Head of U.S. Policy
$250K–$400K
Washington, D.C. · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
About the job
Leads Lucid’s U.S. policy work on frontier AI verification, connecting policymakers’ governance priorities with verifiable claims and technical research.
What you'll do
- Define the U.S. policy strategy and theory of change for frontier AI verification.
- Explain verification capabilities, limitations, and costs to policymakers; translate policy proposals into claims for research and red-team testing.
- Build stakeholder relationships, write policy materials, track regulation and compute-agreement proposals, and grow the policy function.
What they ask for
- Experience in U.S. AI or technology policy with a record of changing outcomes.
- Ability to accurately represent technical work, through sufficient depth to assess verification papers or system designs, or a demonstrated ability to learn new technical domains quickly.
- Track record of making technical AI governance accessible to non-experts in writing.
- Comfort working with limited precedent and building structure.
Nice to have
- Technical background in security, cryptography, hardware, or distributed systems.
- Experience with verification regimes, standards bodies, multi-stakeholder governance, policy-team building, or frontier AI oversight relationships.
Pay
$250K – $400K USD base salary
Tools
AI verification, H100
AI focus
Develop and communicate policy for frontier AI verification; translate governance priorities into claims that verification mechanisms can be tested against.
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