National Security Policy Lead, Biotech

Key Responsibilities

• Develop strategies for AI to strengthen U.S. and allied bio-innovation capacity and biotechnology competitiveness.
• Develop and lead Anthropic's external biotech policy strategy across U.S. federal stakeholders, allied governments, and life sciences sector regulators.
• Engage in thought leadership and planning for how increasingly capable AI reshapes the biotechnology landscape — including global competitiveness, supply chain resilience, equitable access to AI-accelerated medicine, and biosecurity.
• Support and promote collaborations with biosecurity practitioners and biotech industry players across public and private sectors, including on model testing, red teaming, synthesis-screening partnerships, and defensive deployment of frontier AI in biosurveillance.
• Collaborate with technical teams, including CBRNE Safeguards, the Frontier Red Team, and biology research efforts, to translate biological model research and evaluations into concrete policy proposals, stakeholder education, and public contributions.
• Coordinate with national security policymakers on threat intelligence sharing and safeguard implementation, working closely with Anthropic's CBRNE Safeguards team.
• Drive "race to the top" dynamics across the AI industry, including engagement with other frontier labs and the Frontier Model Forum on shared bio standards and safeguard adoption.
• Build and deepen international biotech partnerships, including with Five Eyes counterparts and multilateral institutions, and contribute to thinking on areas of potential international alignment on biotech competitiveness and biological safety.
• Partner closely with the Head of National Security Policy, the broader Public Policy team, Safeguards, the public sector go-to-market team, Legal, Communications, Product, and Research to ensure coherent execution across bio workstreams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Hold an active TS/SCI clearance or held one in the last two years, and have the ability to obtain and maintain one.
• Working knowledge of both biotech and biosecurity policy (e.g., bio-innovation capacity, synthesis-screening infrastructure, regulatory pathway reform).
• Deep familiarity with the institutions and authorities that shape U.S. biotech policy, including FDA, NIH, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DOE, NSC, and relevant Congressional committees, as well as allied bio-relevant agencies.
• Track record of effective, information-rich advocacy with biotech regulators, sector agencies, and Congressional committees of jurisdiction.
• Scientific fluency in the biological sciences sufficient to engage credibly with technical researchers and translate AI and bio capabilities for policy audiences (through formal training or sustained professional work on biotechnologies).
• Experience designing and advocating for concrete bio policy and regulatory proposals.
• Adept at working with diverse cross-functional teams, including technical research, go-to-market, trust and safety, legal, product, communications, and marketing.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, particularly when briefing senior policymakers and government officials.
• High-agency, able to develop and execute strategy independently while accounting for dependencies across teams.
• Demonstrated interest and experience in a complicated technical subject (ideally AI, but other examples could be synthetic biology, genomics, or medical countermeasure development).

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in biotech or biosecurity policy roles across government, the private sector, or both, with senior-level exposure to U.S. federal policymaking and international counterparts.
• Experience contributing to national biotech strategy frameworks (e.g., National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, synthesis-screening standards, FDA modernization proposals).
• Experience leading or supporting public-private partnerships on biotech capacity at scale.
• Direct prior experience in biotech roles at HHS, DoD, Commerce, NSC, or comparable allied biotech institutions.
• Familiarity with biotech industrial dynamics across pharma, agriculture, and industrial biomanufacturing sectors.
• Experience assessing dual-use technology risks, including early work on AI-enabled biological risks.
• Experience engaging international partners on biotech policy and biological threat reduction.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $295,000–$345,000 USD

Education and Experience

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.
• Minimum years of experience: Will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position (preferred: 10+ years in biotech or biosecurity policy).