About the role

Anthropic’s mission is to ensure the world safely makes the transition through transformative AI. As part of this mission, we have advocated that democracies should continue to lead the development and deployment of powerful and trusted frontier AI, particularly for national security. We work closely with relevant national security communities to deliver this ambition.

We are looking for a National Security Lead to guide our strategic engagements with European national security and intelligence communities. Working closely with the national security team based in the US and the EMEA policy team, this senior role will help to shape Anthropic's approach to national security policy and partnerships in Europe during a critical period in AI development and governance. You will be the day to day point of contact with European national security partners, both ensuring that Anthropic’s leadership understands their priorities, and translating technology and policy developments within Anthropic for national security partners. You will also work closely with our EMEA 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. This role is based in London.

In this role you will:

• Lead policy engagement with European 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 EMEA policy teams

• Partner with the EMEA 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, and academics to in Europe to share knowledge around national security issues

• 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 negotiations

• Are willing/able to participate in a process to obtain/retain Developed Vetting clearance in the UK

This role is based in London. This job will also require travel in Europe and to the United States.