Impact Careers Full-time

Program Manager, Responsible Scaling Policy

Anthropic

Posted

Jan 20, 2026

Location

USA

Type

Full-time

Compensation

$190000 - $285000

Mission

What you will drive

  • Build relationships with internal experts on Safeguards, Security, Alignment, capability evaluations, and other relevant areas
  • Learn about ongoing questions and challenges faced by these teams, and help to find the best balance between AI risk reduction and pragmatism
  • Gather information from across the company and assist in analyzing relevant risks
  • Help to drive conversations about the ambitious-but-achievable plans we can make to level up our risk mitigations
  • Collaborate with our Policy team, advising on regulation relevant to RSPs
  • Generally work to identify the most promising risk mitigations to be further developed and/or exported to the rest of the AI industry

Impact

The difference you'll make

This role offers a unique opportunity to work on the nuts and bolts of AI risk reduction, interacting with many different parts of the company to help ensure AI systems are safe and beneficial for society.

Profile

What makes you a great fit

  • Have (or can quickly develop) a deep understanding of major catastrophic risks potentially posed by advanced AI
  • Are passionate about reducing the harms and improving the benefits of AI and align with Anthropic's safety mission and commitment to responsible AI development
  • Are a pragmatic problem-solver who relishes the opportunity to find the best balance between the goal of reducing catastrophic risks and staying on the frontier of AI development
  • Can write quickly and clearly in a way that gives audiences an easy time understanding your reasoning and justifications for your claims
  • Are a flexible generalist who is excited to learn about many topics and evolve your work in unanticipated directions as we contend with a rapidly changing AI landscape
  • Are highly organized and excel at managing multiple projects simultaneously, maintaining clear priorities and delivering on tight timelines
  • Are comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, taking ownership of problems, and proactively driving initiatives with limited precedent
  • Are scrappy and hard-working, but also humble, genuinely collaborative, and a strong team player
  • Hold at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field

Benefits

What's in it for you

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.

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Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.