Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute

The role

You will build and lead the Institute's tabletop exercise program and its team. You will set the research agenda, design exercises as empirical studies, and turn results into findings.

What you will do

• Set the program's research agenda
• Design exercises as empirical studies
• Build the program's measurement
• Turn results into findings
• Hire, manage and develop a team and a bench of facilitators
• Make the program scalable
• Build a facilitator kit
• Create and direct the tools behind the exercises

Required qualifications

• Designed and run tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers and published on the subject
• Training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods or structured analysis
• 10+ years of experience in national security, government, technology policy, or strategy
• Can keep the scenarios technically grounded with a strong grasp of AI capabilities and safety research
• Managed a team, including hiring, setting direction, giving feedback and developing people
• Use Claude and other AI tools extensively in your own work
• Care about AI safety and Anthropic's public benefit mission
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice to have

• Published research on wargaming methods, simulation or crisis decision-making
• Run exercises that fed into real policy or crisis-response decisions
• Run multi-iteration or experimental wargames and analyzed results across runs
• Used AI agents or language models as players, adjudicators or analysts in simulations
• Led a research program or team through a period of growth
• Existing relationships across national security, government, policy and AI, and are trusted in those communities
• Published widely read work on AI, emerging technology, strategy or crisis decision-making

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The Anthropic Institute (TAI) is a function within Anthropic that works to advance the public conversation around AI.