National Security Lead, APAC

<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><p><strong>About the role</strong></p> <p>We are looking for an experienced National Security practitioner to guide our strategic engagements with Asia-Pacific national security and intelligence communities. Working closely with the national security team based in the US and the APAC policy team, this senior role will help to shape Anthropic's approach to national security policy and partnerships in APAC during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will be the day to day point of contact with national security partners in the Asia-Pacific, translating technological developments for national security audiences and building mutually beneficial collaborations.. You will also work closely with our APAC public sector sales team to support public sector deployment of Claude in high-leverage use cases that strengthen national security, enhance government efficiency, and accelerate allied competitiveness to promote regional peace and security.&nbsp;</p> <p>This role is based in Australia. This job will also require travel across the Asia-Pacific region and to the United States.</p> <p><strong>In this role you will:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead policy engagement with APAC national security partners on issues related to government use and national security implications of frontier models</li> <li>Engage key NatSec policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider national security and APAC policy teams.</li> <li>Partner with the APAC public sector sales team to support commercial efforts involving governmen