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, defining crisp boundaries between acceptable and harmful requests in dual‑use domains, building threat models, evaluations, detection systems, and partnering with engineering to operationalize policy.
Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; Washington, DC
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USD 245,000 - 285,000
Requirements
Skills
- 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
- Are comfortable with ambiguity and drawn to problems that have no established playbook
- Are motivated by preventing misuse without obstructing the legitimate work in the field
- A working understanding of machine learning and large language model fundamentals
- Hands‑on engineering experience in a weapons‑relevant technical domain, such as systems engineering, robotics and autonomy, guidance/navigation/control, sensors and signal processing, aerospace or mechanical engineering, materials and energetics, or embedded software
- Hands‑on experience applying arms export controls (ITAR/EAR) or international arms‑control regimes
- Experience building or evaluating classifiers, including LLM-based ones, and reasoning about precision and recall for rare, high‑consequence categories
- Trust & safety or product policy experience at a technology platform
Responsibilities
- 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 weapons systems, and keep them current as the technology and its misuse evolve
- 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
- Engage external experts as well as government and industry partners, and translate that engagement into stronger policy and enforcement
Technologies
Machine LearningLarge Language ModelsSystems EngineeringRoboticsAutonomyGuidance/Navigation/ControlSensors and Signal ProcessingAerospace EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMaterials and EnergeticsEmbedded SoftwareLLM-based Classifiers
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