National Security Policy Lead, Biotech

## 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
Anthropic is looking for a Biotech Policy Lead to lead our work on the biological dimensions of frontier AI policy. Reporting to the Head of National Security Policy, you will shape and lead Anthropic’s external policy posture on biology issues across the U.S. federal government, allied democracies, and the biotech and life sciences community. You will help shape how AI strengthens U.S. competitiveness through biotechnology during a critical period in AI development and governance.

You will serve as Anthropic’s principal biotech policy voice with the federal government and Congress, relevant agencies and program offices, and allied government counterparts. You will translate Anthropic’s research on frontier model biological capabilities into concrete policy proposals, partnership opportunities, and meaningful contributions to public debates.

## Key responsibilities
– **AI bio‑innovation strategy** — Develop strategies for AI to strengthen U.S. and allied bio‑innovation capacity and biotechnology competitiveness.
– **External biotech policy strategy** — Develop and lead Anthropic’s external biotech policy strategy across U.S. federal stakeholders, allied governments, and life sciences regulators.
– **Thought leadership** — Engage in planning for how increasingly capable AI reshapes the biotechnology landscape, including competitiveness, supply chain resilience, equitable access to AI‑accelerated medicine, and biosecurity.
– **Biosecurity collaborations** — Support collaborations with biosecurity practitioners and biotech industry players across public and private sectors, including model testing, red teaming, synthesis‑screening partnerships, and defensive deployment of frontier AI in biosurveillance.
– **Technical team coordination** — Collaborate with technical teams (CBRNE Safeguards, Frontier Red Team, biology research) to translate biological model research into policy proposals, stakeholder education, and public contributions.
– **National security coordination** — Coordinate with national security policymakers on threat intelligence sharing and safeguard implementation.
– **Industry standards** — Drive “race to the top” dynamics across the AI industry, including engagement with other frontier labs and the Frontier Model Forum on shared bio standards and safeguard adoption.
– **International partnerships** — Build and deepen international biotech partnerships, including with Five Eyes counterparts and multilateral institutions.
– **Cross‑functional collaboration** — Partner closely with Public Policy, Safeguards, go‑to‑market, Legal, Communications, Product, and Research teams to ensure coherent execution across bio workstreams.

## Minimum qualifications
– Hold an active TS/SCI clearance or held one in the last two years, with ability to obtain and maintain one.
– Working knowledge of biotech and biosecurity policy (e.g., bio‑innovation capacity, synthesis‑screening infrastructure, regulatory pathway reform).
– Deep familiarity with U.S. biotech policy institutions and authorities (FDA, NIH, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DOE, NSC, relevant Congressional committees) and allied agencies.
– Track record of effective, information‑rich advocacy with biotech regulators, sector agencies, and Congressional committees.
– Scientific fluency in biological sciences sufficient to engage with technical researchers and translate AI/bio capabilities for policy audiences.
– Experience designing and advocating for concrete bio policy and regulatory proposals.
– Adept at working with diverse cross‑functional teams (technical research, go‑to‑market, trust and safety, legal, product, communications, marketing).
– Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, especially when briefing senior policymakers.
– High‑agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently while accounting for cross‑team dependencies.
– Demonstrated interest and experience in a complex technical subject (AI, synthetic biology, genomics, medical countermeasures, etc.).

## Preferred qualifications
– 10+ years of experience in biotech or biosecurity policy roles across government or private sector, with senior‑level exposure to U.S. federal policymaking and international counterparts.
– Experience contributing to national biotech strategy frameworks (e.g., National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, synthesis‑screening standards, FDA modernization proposals).
– Experience leading or supporting public‑private partnerships on biotech capacity at scale.
– Direct prior experience in biotech roles at HHS, DoD, Commerce, NSC, or comparable allied institutions.
– Familiarity with biotech industrial dynamics across pharma, agriculture, and industrial biomanufacturing.
– Experience assessing dual‑use technology risks, including early work on AI‑enabled biological risks.
– Experience engaging international partners on biotech policy and biological threat reduction.

## Annual Compensation
**Annual Salary:**
$295,000 – $345,000 USD

For sales roles, the range provided reflects On Target Earnings (OTE), including commissions/bonuses and base salary.

## Logistics
– **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
– **Required field of study:** Relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.
– **Minimum years of experience:** Correlates with internal job level requirements.
– **Hybrid policy:** Staff expected in office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.
– **Visa sponsorship:** Anthropic sponsors visas when possible and provides immigration support, though not all roles or candidates can be sponsored.

## Inclusion statement
Anthropic encourages applications even from candidates who do not meet every listed qualification. Research shows underrepresented groups may experience imposter syndrome and self‑select out prematurely. Anthropic values diverse perspectives, especially given the social and ethical implications of AI systems.

## Candidate safety
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## How we’re different
Anthropic believes high‑impact AI research is “big science.” The team works cohesively on a few large‑scale research efforts, prioritizing impact over smaller, isolated projects. AI research is treated as an empirical science with parallels to physics and biology. Collaboration and communication are highly valued.

Anthropic’s research directions build on prior work 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. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment.

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