Technical Program Manager, External Evaluators

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Anthropic gives independent external evaluators access to our models, our people, and our safety practices so that they can assess risks, processes, and policies. We're hiring a Technical Program Manager to establish and deepen our partnerships with these external reviewers and embedded evaluators to support a thriving frontier evaluation ecosystem.

You'll be the main point of contact for our existing partners, deepening our support so that they can work effectively and produce high-quality, rigorous, independent publications. You'll separately broaden the portfolio of organizations we are working with, managing the funnel from first conversation through contracting, onboarding, and day-to-day access, culminating in published reports. You'll evolve our current time-intensive manual processes into a system that can support many evaluators at once, working with teams across Safety, Research, Security, Legal, People Services, IT, Policy, and Communications. Within six months, you should be able to take a new evaluator from contract negotiation to first published report with minimal involvement from senior leaders.

You'll need the technical depth to work out with researchers and engineers what access, tooling, and evidence an evaluation requires, and the judgment to resolve most questions quickly and escalate the few that need it, while balancing evaluators' need for access with Anthropic's requirements to protect its customers, its security, and its confidential information. We're looking for a generalist who can ship quickly and iteratively, and who earns trust on both sides.

Key responsibilities

Minimum qualifications

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

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• Own the external evaluator program end to end, including our relationships with evaluator organizations and the pipeline of future partners
• Take each evaluator from first conversation through scoping, contracting, onboarding, access, and review to a published report
• Define the stages and tiers of working with evaluators, and develop information access policies that meet evaluators' needs while protecting security and confidential information
• Drive evaluators' access and information requests to fast, well-documented decisions in partnership with Research, Security, Legal, and IT
• Drive the technical design of evaluator access with Security, IT, and infrastructure teams, including permissions, environments, and monitoring, and close gaps between policy and technical controls without slowing evaluators down

$290,000—$365,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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