Policy Research, Strategic Advisory

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s 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

We're hiring a policy generalist to join the Strategic Advisory team within Anthropic's Public Policy team. You'll develop and maintain our policy research strategy and lead the research behind it, to strengthen Anthropic's policy influence in Washington and around the world.

You'll lead the research that backs up Anthropic's policy positions: deciding what evidence a position needs, working with Anthropic's research teams on what our own data can show, building partnerships with outside academics, think tanks and economists, and managing our growing body of commissioned research and economic impact work. You'll turn that research into analysis and materials our federal, state and international teams can use. You'll also run the cross-functional processes that take an open policy question to an agreed, evidence-backed position. As Anthropic's international footprint grows, you'll help the team scale its research and support for markets outside the US.

You're likely a strong generalist who likes to build things and see them through, and who gets energy from turning complex research into something clear, organized and useful. You're curious and rigorous about evidence. You ask what would change a skeptic's mind, you can tell a strong study from a weak one, and you know when to bring in a subject matter expert. You have good judgment, you take initiative, and you're comfortable when the path isn't defined yet. You can run several research projects and outside partners at once while keeping track of how they connect.

Key responsibilities

• Run policy development processes from open question to agreed position: frame the question, bring in the right experts from research, legal, communications and regional policy teams, work through disagreements, and get to a decision

• Develop research plans for priority issue areas: what evidence would strengthen or test a position, what Anthropic's own data and research can show, and where an outside partner is the right source

• Work with Anthropic's research teams, including economics research, Societal Impacts and the Frontier Red Team, to turn their findings into material policymakers can use

• Manage commissioned research from scoping through publication, and build partnerships with outside academics, think tanks, economists and consultancies

• Own economic impact reports and the narratives that go with them for markets around the world

• Anticipate emerging policy issues and work with internal experts to develop Anthropic's perspective and supporting materials before external pressure builds

• Scale the team's support for international markets: adapt strategy and materials for different governments, and build templates and processes so each new market is faster than the last

• Draft briefings, talking points and other materials on short timelines, coordinating with policy communications so messaging stays consistent

Minimum qualifications

• A track record of driving cross-functional projects to a decision or finished product, including getting people with competing interests to agreement when you don't manage them

• Experience as a policy generalist across several issue areas, including designing and carrying out policy research and turning it into policy proposals or positions

• Ability to scope a research question, work with economists, academics and other experts to answer it, and judge the quality of their evidence and methods, for example through economic consulting, a policy research organization, or an in-house research team

• Excellent writing: you can turn complex technical or economic material into clear, concise memos, briefings and talking points for different audiences

• An understanding of how a company's commercial interests and its policy positions fit together

• Strong organization and project management, including running several projects and outside partners at once

• A record of working independently, taking ownership of problems, and driving next steps and deliverables without being prompted

• A collaborative, low-ego approach: you pitch in wherever the work needs you and share credit readily

• Interest in AI policy and alignment with Anthropic's mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial

Preferred qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in technology policy, public affairs, consulting or a related field

• Experience on an in-house technology policy team, in corporate public affairs, or in management or economic consulting, especially public sector or policy practices

• Experience managing outside vendors, research partners or commissioned studies, including economic impact studies

• A background in AI or technology policy

• Relationships with academics, think tanks or research organizations working on AI or technology policy

• Experience with international policy or supporting teams in multiple countries

• Training in economics or quantitative methods

Logistics

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 as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.

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How we're 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. We're 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 about our policy for using AI in our application process.