Applied AI Architect, International Policy

Anthropic • $240K — $315K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in engineering roles (Customer Engineer, Sales Engineer) with public sector focus.
  • Experience in technology policy, AI safety, or cybersecurity.
  • Proven capability in designing innovative technical solutions.
  • Familiarity with AI model safety evaluations and best practices.
  • Strong programming skills, preferably in Python.
  • Solid understanding of large language models (LLMs).
  • Excellent communication skills to engage diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main technical advisor for government officials and AISIs on frontier AI.
  • Collaborate with Policy team to align AI solutions with partners' goals.
  • Conduct hands-on workshops for partners on integrations with Claude AI.
  • Advocate for international partners' needs within Product and Research teams.
  • Travel for senior leader meetings and establish global partnerships.
  • Define a shared vision for safe and beneficial AI solutions.
  • Drive strategy and execution for innovative AI solutions.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates.
  • Flexible hybrid work policy, requiring in-office attendance 25% of the time.
  • Encouragement for diverse candidates to apply, promoting inclusion across the team.
Full Job Description
About the role

As a member of the International Policy Applied AI team at Anthropic, you will be a trusted technical advisor to governments, AI Safety Institutes (AISIs), and multilateral institutions. You'll use your technical skills and your experience with government partners to help them understand frontier AI, test it, and apply it to their public missions with a high degree of reliability and safety. This role serves Anthropic's policy, mission, and public benefit goals.

In collaboration with the Policy, Product, Research, and Engineering teams, you'll help partners develop strategies and plans to evaluate and adopt leading-edge AI systems. You will use your excellent communication skills to explain complex topics, including the potential benefits and harms of frontier AI, to technical and non-technical audiences alike. You will also play a critical role in identifying how our AI systems can best serve public interests around the world, while maintaining our best-in-class safety standards.
Responsibilities:
  • Act as a primary technical advisor for senior officials in partner governments, AISIs, and international institutions. Brief them on frontier AI capabilities, give an honest account of both benefits and harms, and explain safety research in terms that inform their decisions.
  • Partner closely with the Policy team to understand each partner's goals and requirements. Develop demos, pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites that show how Claude can support their public missions, such as cyber defense.
  • Lead technical onboarding, enablement, and hands-on workshops for partner institutions, including national cybersecurity agencies. Guide their setup, architecture, and integration as they build with Claude Code and the Claude API.
  • Act as the voice of our international partners and a key collaborator with our Product and Research teams to ensure we deliver the capabilities they need.
  • Travel internationally to partner institutions for senior leader meetings, technical enablement, and building relationships.
  • Establish a shared vision for creating solutions that enable beneficial and safe AI.
  • Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of innovative solutions that leverage our latest models' capabilities.
You may be a good fit if you have:
  • 4+ years of experience as a Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Cybersecurity Engineer, working with governments, international organizations, or the public sector
  • Experience in technology policy, AI safety, cybersecurity, or international affairs
  • Designed novel and innovative solutions for technical platforms in a developing mission area
  • Familiarity with how AI models are evaluated and tested for safety
  • Strong technical aptitude to partner with engineers and strong proficiency in at least one programming language (Python preferred)
  • Understanding of and experience with LLM fundamentals
  • The ability to navigate and execute amidst ambiguity, and to flex into different domains based on the problem at hand, finding simple, easy-to-understand solutions
  • Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders, from engineers to senior government officials
  • Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$240,000-$315,000 USD

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.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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