Geopolitics Analyst, Policy

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, ensuring AI is safe and beneficial for users and society. Our team is a rapidly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders collaborating to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Anthropic's national security policy team fosters partnerships and programs with national security stakeholders globally, supporting Anthropic’s mission to help the U.S. and other democracies thrive through the transition to transformative AI. As AI capabilities advance rapidly, policymakers and national security stakeholders require insightful analysis of the global AI landscape, including the trajectories of major strategic competitors.

As a Geopolitics Analyst, Policy, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining Anthropic's understanding of international AI developments. This involves tracking the full spectrum of AI competition—from compute and energy to model capabilities, corporate strategies, capital flows, talent pipelines, adoption patterns, and government policy—and translating this into actionable analysis for both internal strategy and external engagement.

This role bridges technology, business, and policy. You will produce high-quality briefings for government stakeholders, inform Anthropic's policy positions, and help all internal and external parties understand how the international competitive landscape impacts our mission. If you are passionate about applying rigorous analytical methods to one of the most consequential chapters of technology and human history, this role offers unique impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain systematic tracking of AI development in strategically significant regions, covering compute capacity, model releases, corporate funding, and policy developments.
• Produce clear, well-sourced analytical products—ranging from quick-turn updates to in-depth assessments—for internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Develop and brief government officials, congressional staff, and national security community members on international AI competitive dynamics.
• Monitor and analyze primary sources, including foreign-language technical publications, financial disclosures, and policy documents.
• Identify emerging trends, capability shifts, and strategic inflection points that may affect US competitiveness or Anthropic's operating environment.
• Collaborate with Anthropic's policy, communications, commercial, and technical teams to ensure our external engagement reflects accurate understanding of the global landscape.
• Build relationships with external analysts, researchers, and government counterparts working on related issues.

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous, independent, and clear analysis on complex, ambiguous topics with limited supervision.
• Bring experience synthesizing large volumes of information into clear, decision-relevant products for senior audiences.
• Can context-switch between deep technical research and polished executive communication.
• Have a track record of producing high-quality written analysis under time pressure.
• Are comfortable operating across sectors—engaging credibly with investors, technologists, and policymakers.
• Care deeply about AI's impact on society and find Anthropic's mission compelling.
• Have strong proficiency in Mandarin language industry and policy research methods, tools, and resources. Proficiency in Mandarin reading is a strong plus.
• Possess 7+ years of experience in roles that demonstrate the capabilities above on exceptional, high-performing teams.

Strong Candidates May Also

• Have professional experience in investment banking, management consulting, hedge funds, or equity research—particularly covering technology and/or Asia.
• Have policy experience in government, think tanks, or policy-focused roles in the private sector.
• Possess familiarity with semiconductor supply chains, cloud infrastructure economics, or LLM technical fundamentals.
• Have existing relationships in the US national security or foreign policy community.
• Have experience with open-source intelligence methods or competitive intelligence.

Compensation & Logistics

The annual compensation range for this role is $265,000—$295,000 USD. We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time, making this a hybrid role. Visa sponsorship is available, and we will make every reasonable effort to secure a visa if an offer is extended.

How We're Different

At Anthropic, we believe in big science for AI research, working as a single cohesive team on large-scale efforts. Our focus is on impact—advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI. We approach AI research as an empirical science, highly collaborative, with frequent discussions to ensure high-impact work. We value strong communication skills. Our research directions build upon prior work in areas like GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.

Key skills/competency

• Geopolitical Analysis
• AI Policy
• National Security
• International Relations
• Strategic Intelligence
• Government Briefings
• Mandarin Language Proficiency
• Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• Technical Research
• Stakeholder Engagement