Policy Counsel, National Security

About Anthropic

Anthropics mission is to create reliable interpretable and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers engineers policy experts and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Policy Counsel to help navigate the complex intersection of national security policy AI safety and regulatory compliance. As AI systems become increasingly relevant to national security decision-making you will work alongside a growing team to support Anthropics work with defense and intelligence partners. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in national security law sound judgment under pressure and the ability to judiciously translate complex regulatory requirements into timely accurate and practical advice in support of Anthropics public benefit mission.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and deployment of AI systems to national security partners in close collaboration with the policy technical and sales teams
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop practical and scalable ways to improve the governments understanding of the national security implications of advanced AI
• Assist in drafting policy positions responses to regulatory inquiries and other materials
• Monitor developments in national security law and policy including legislative proposals regulatory changes and agency guidance and communicate implications to key stakeholders across the organization
• Support compliance initiatives relating to trade controls and sanctions

You may be a good fit if you have:

• A JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• At least 8 years of experience in national security law with at least some service in government as well as other experience from law firms or relevant in-house roles
• Experience exercising sound judgment in and having a high tolerance for ambiguous situations and operating at the highest levels of integrity and discretion
• Strategic flexible and solution-oriented with ability to find practical paths forward in areas where law and policy are evolving rapidly
• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to coordinate complex matters across multiple internal teams and outside counsel
• Exceptional analytical writing and communication skills with the ability to distill complex legal and policy issues for technical teams business leaders and government stakeholders

Strong candidates may have:

• Experience working in or advising technology companies on government partnerships or national security regulatory matters
• Familiarity with AI policy issues or emerging technology regulation
• Active security clearance or willingness to seek and obtain a clearance
• Experience with export controls and sanctions compliance programs

Role-specific policy: For this role we expect staff to be able to work from either our Washington DC or San Francisco office at least 3 days a week though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for an interim period of time.

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How were different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process