National Security Lead, APAC

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

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.

This role is based in Australia. This job will also require travel across the Asia-Pacific region and to the United States.

In this role you will:

- Lead policy engagement with APAC national security partners on issues related to government use and national security implications of frontier models

- Engage key NatSec policy stakeholders (e.g., via briefings, consultations, demos, roundtables), in coordination with the wider national security and APAC policy teams.

- Partner with the APAC public sector sales team to support commercial efforts involving government agency deployments

- Support and promote public-private research collaborations

- Build a coalition of government agencies, nonprofits, safety institutes, think tanks and academics to in APAC to share knowledge around national security issues and ensure the safe and responsible adoption of frontier AI

- Collaborate with technical teams to translate Anthropic threat model research into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and thought leadership opportunities

You may be a good fit if you:

- Have 10+ years of experience working in national security agencies, or a combination of government and related private sector experience

- Are high-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently, taking account of dependencies with other cross-functional teams within Anthropic (including but not limited to policy, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, research, comms, and marketing)

- Possess strong written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing policymakers and government officials

- Have demonstrated interest and experience in a complicated technical subject (ideally, AI, but other examples could be quantum computing, cryptography, fusion power, etc.)

- Have had some legal training in or exposure to contract negotiation

- Are willing/able to participate in a process to obtain/retain a security clearance in Australia

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 reason