Senior Safeguards Policy Lead, Cyber Harms
About The Position
Anthropic is seeking a senior policy leader to manage the governance of access to its sensitive cyber-relevant model capabilities. This role involves consolidating the controlled-access framework, ensuring cyber-related product policy commitments remain current with evolving standards, and acting as the primary liaison with government and regulatory bodies. The position requires close collaboration with regulators, partners, and the coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure community. While coding is not required, a strong understanding of technical material, including probes, classifiers, and trusted-access programs, is necessary to develop robust policies.
Requirements
- Experience engaging directly with the US government and regulatory parties on matters related to cybersecurity.
- Experience authoring policy positions, formal reporting, or regulatory responses for government audiences.
- Extensive experience in cybersecurity policy, including coordinated vulnerability disclosure.
Nice To Haves
- Experience coordinating sensitive pre-release or pre-publication engagement between a company and government partners (e.g., pre-deployment testing, incident notification, regulatory pre-briefs).
- Familiarity with government information-sharing and incident-notification frameworks.
- Experience engaging directly with government agencies, regulators, or standards bodies on cybersecurity matters, including on AI.
- Ability to read and interpret technical security material, such as capability evaluations, vulnerability reports, or threat assessments.
- Established relationships across government and regulatory bodies focused on cybersecurity.
- A background spanning legal, technical, and policy disciplines related to vulnerabilities and disclosure.
- Active secret security clearance or higher, or eligibility to obtain one.
Responsibilities
- Own Anthropic's access-requirements policy and lead consolidation of the controlled-access framework across existing and emerging access programs.
- Keep Anthropic's cyber-related policy commitments current with shifting industry and regulatory standards, and ensure they map cleanly to our technical safeguards.
- Serve as Anthropic's primary policy interface with government and regulatory stakeholders.
- Build and maintain relationships across the coordinated vulnerability disclosure, cybersecurity policy, and national security communities.
- Author and maintain reporting to partners and regulators.
- Translate technical evaluation and safeguard work into policy positions and external-facing standards engagement.
- Engage closely with technical teams to understand the capabilities of probes and classifiers relevant to access policy.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
