Senior Cyber Policy Lead

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build beneficial AI systems.

Anthropic is seeking a senior policy leader to own how the company governs access to its most sensitive cyber-relevant model capabilities. The role consolidates the controlled-access framework, keeps cyber-related product policy commitments current as standards shift, and serves as Anthropic's primary policy interface with government and regulatory stakeholders. The role works closely with regulators, partners, and the coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure community. No coding is required, but the candidate should be comfortable engaging deeply with technical material — probes, classifiers, and trusted-access programs — and translating it into policy that holds up under scrutiny.

• Own Anthropic's access-requirements policy and lead consolidation of the controlled-access framework across existing and emerging access programs
• Keep cyber-related policy commitments current with shifting industry and regulatory standards, ensuring they map cleanly to 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

• Experience engaging directly with the US government and regulatory parties on cybersecurity matters
• Experience authoring policy positions, formal reporting, or regulatory responses for government audiences
• Extensive experience in cybersecurity policy, including coordinated vulnerability disclosure

• 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

Annual salary: $285,000—$330,000 USD.

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: a field relevant to the role. Years of experience required will correlate with internal job level requirements. Hybrid policy: all staff are expected to be in one of Anthropic's offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is offered.