The opportunity
The role. You will build and lead the Institute’s tabletop exercise program and the team that runs it.
What you'll do
Set the program’s research agenda: the questions exercises should answer, the scenarios to run, and the audience for each
Design exercises as empirical studies: define what each run tests, standardize scenarios and data capture so results are comparable, and use repeated play to map the range of outcomes
Build the program’s measurement: pre- and post-exercise assessments, decision logs, transcript analysis and after-action reports
Turn results into findings: publish on what the exercises show, and brief senior people inside and outside Anthropic on the gaps they expose
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 time, refreshed on a regular cadence so they stay timely
What they're looking for
- 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