Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute

📋 Description

• Set the program’s research agenda: the questions exercises should answer, the scenarios to run, and
• Design exercises as empirical studies: define what each run tests, standardize scenarios and data
• Build the program’s measurement: pre- and post-exercise assessments, decision logs, transcript
• Turn results into findings: publish on what the exercises show, and brief senior people inside and
• Hire, manage and develop a team and a bench of facilitators
• Make the program scalable: maintain a library of tested scenarios that the team reuses most of the

🎯 Requirements

• Have designed and run tabletop exercises, wargames, or simulations for senior decision-makers and
• Have training in a discipline that uses simulation, experimental methods or structured analysis
• Have 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
• Have managed a team, including hiring, setting direction, giving feedback and developing people
• Use Claude and other AI tools extensively in your own work

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
• Visa sponsorship (reasonable efforts made for successful candidates)