# Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/8f18ef24-7585-4d43-b45c-b7ca5b7ac039

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
- Salary: 245000 – 285000 USD per year

## Summary

This role owns Anthropic's policies governing how Claude can be used in conventional weapons contexts, building threat models and detection systems to distinguish between legitimate engineering research and weapons development. It suits someone with deep weapons systems expertise and policy experience who can translate technical judgment into enforceable guardrails and communicate across technical and non-technical audiences.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Machine Learning, Playing Music by Ear

## Required

- Deep applied expertise in weapons systems
- Experience in defense research, service research laboratory, or weapons design organization
- Ability to write clear, operationally precise policy
- Knowledge of legal frameworks governing weapons and arms transfers
- Capability to perform rigorous open-source technical analysis of weapons systems

## Nice to have

- Working understanding of machine learning and LLM fundamentals
- Hands-on engineering experience in weapons-relevant domains such as robotics, autonomy, guidance/navigation/control, sensors, aerospace, mechanical engineering, materials science, or embedded software
- Experience applying arms export controls like ITAR/EAR
- Experience building or evaluating classifiers including LLM-based ones
- Trust and safety or product policy experience at a technology platform

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5392184008