Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons
Menlo Ventures PortfolioSan Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC · full time · Senior
$245,000 – $285,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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