Technical Program Manager, Government Partnerships

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

As the Technical Program Manager for Government Partnerships, you'll own Anthropic's day-to-day operational engagement with NIST’s US Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (NIST CAISSI), the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), and other key government partners. These institutions evaluate our models, collaborate with our researchers, and are essential partners in advancing the safety and security of AI. You'll run what makes that work possible.

This role will require extensive collaboration both with our government partners and with many teams across Anthropic notably our teams involved in policy, safeguards, model launches, and research on areas such as alignment, monitorability, cybersecurity, and biosecurity.

Things that make someone a great fit for this job: deep understanding of government and ideally specific understanding of these agencies, skill with delivering fast-paced tactical work, and strategic understanding of how Anthropic and our government partners can mutually achieve our objectives.

Responsibilities:

Own the day-to-day relationship - Serve as the primary operational contact for all interactions between Anthropic and these government partners. Run regular meetings with our partners, triage every request, build the trackers and playbooks that let the work scale both for consistency with these partners and where valuable to more government partners.

Manage model access end to end - Ensure each partner has the access they need, under the right agreement, at the right time for the duration of time they need the access.

Coordinate legal agreements - Work with Legal to negotiate, amend, and maintain MOUs, evaluation plans, research plans, NDAs, and data-sharing agreements that govern the work.

Drive partner testing throughout the model launch process - Partner with launch teams to brief the institutes on upcoming models, deliver technical reports, and answer questions fast. Get findings to the researchers who need them in time to use them. Bring a point of view on how to align partner testing to impact within Anthropic and provide input where requested by partners on the research and evaluation directions which are uniquely valuable to Anthropic.

Coordinate research collaborations - Identify opportunities to connect government researchers with Anthropic researchers where there is mutual interest. Scope the work, keep it moving, and align government partner research efforts to where their work has the most impact.

Manage publications and incidents - Coordinate review of system card text, blog language, and partner reports with Communications and Legal. Lead coordination when testing surfaces a vulnerability or incident or when Anthropic conducts an incident disclosure.

You may be a good fit if you:

Have worked in government and know from the inside how agencies work, coordinate with each other, and interact with prevailing political direction.

Have delivered complex, cross-functional programs where a missed step had real world consequences.

Can follow the technical thread on model evaluations and safeguards well enough to brief a researcher or a government counterpart.

Have managed MOUs, CRADAs, or information-sharing agreements between government and industry.

Build trust quickly and know what can be shared, with whom, and through which channel.

Are mid-career to senior and work independently. From government, that is roughly a GS-14 or GS-15, a UK Grade 6 or Grade 7, or equivalent.

Can work across US and UK time zones, travel regularly, and cover early or late hours around launches.

Care about Anthropic's mission and about building government capacity on frontier AI.

Strong candidates may also:

Have worked at NIST CAISSI, UK AISI, ONCD, or a close partner agency such as CISA, NSA’s Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC), OSTP, or NCSC.

Bring existing working relationships at these organizations.

Have hands-on experience with AI evaluations, cybersecurity, or biosecurity.

Deadline to apply: None, applications will be received on a rolling basis.

Annual Salary: TBD with Recruiting.

Note for Recruiting: append the standard Logistics, How we're different, and Come work with us sections before posting.

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:

$290,000—$365,000 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.

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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.