National Security Policy Lead, Biotech

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>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, and will help shape how AI strengthens US competitiveness through biotechnology during a critical period in AI development and governance.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2>Key responsibilities</h2> <ul> <li> <p>Develop strategies for AI to strengthen U.S. and allied bio-innovation capacity and biotechnology competitiveness</p> </li> <li> <p>Develop and lead Anthropic's external biotech policy strategy across U.S. federal stakeholders, allied governments, and life sciences sector regulators</p> </li> <li> <p>Engage in thought leadership and planning for how increasingly capable AI reshapes the biotechnology landscape — including global competitiveness, supply chain resilience, and equitable access to AI-accelerated medicine, as well as biosecurity</p> </li> <li> <p>Support and promote collaborations with biosecurity practitioners and biotech industry players acros