The International Trade Compliance team is responsible for providing strategic, high-level trade compliance advice and guidance to internal business and engineering teams as well as owning day-to-day tactical execution.

As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving international trade controls and policies to protect and guide the development of commercial dual-use and defence technology across the APAC region, as an expert in applicable US and non-US export control laws and regulations.

The role will be a key interface between engineering, program management, compliance, and senior leadership to ensure that product teams are in line with engineering goals and compliance frameworks.

This person will be responsible for designing and managing controls plans for commercial dual-use and defence platforms across the region and ensuring compliance with U.S. and global export control regulations.

You will provide strategic guidance and regulatory expertise, achieving positive outcomes supporting Anduril’s global growth objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement trade compliance policies, protections, and infrastructure to ensure engineering/program development meets schedule objectives, consistent with ITAR, EAR, and local country laws/regulations of EU, UK, or Australia.

• Coordinate with external partners (e.g., customers, suppliers, in-region government agencies, etc.) to ensure product roadmaps align with internal compliance posture and pivot accordingly.

• Develop country-specific classification decision rationale, heuristics and methodology for Anduril programs to improve efficiency in classification while maintaining accuracy.

• Leverage AI for rapid risk-mitigated determinations.

• Support the release of technology and data to internal and external stakeholders.

• Deploy and maintain country-specific J/C training curricula and robust methodologies to meet cost and performance metrics.

• Apply for and manage country-specific export authorizations, when required.

• Oversee country-specific export authorizations, ensuring compliance with license scope, provisos and associated conditions.

• Support the logistics team on hardware exports and imports as appropriate.

• Provide guidance and training to Anduril regional teams on ITAR, EAR and country-specific regulations as appropriate.

• Perform compliance assessments, identifying and mitigating compliance risks, of export/import authorizations and related transactions and assist in any investigations of potential compliance issues.

• Lead working groups, independent projects, and collaborative efforts with within the compliance function or cross-functionally driving ITC program enhancements.

• Support and implement corrective actions that result from compliance issues.

• Navigate co-production, co-development, and offset projects across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with US export regulations and country-specific trade laws.

• Manage Defence export portal for license applications, tracking, and reporting (RR).

• Evaluate and review commodities, including hardware, software, and technical data, for export license eligibility under AUKUS and other international trade control frameworks.

• Communicate and collaborate with regulators and outside counsel to address export compliance matters.

• Stay updated on regulatory changes and export compliance requirements, providing timely insights and guidance to leadership.

• Provide guidance on the use of collaborative environments for sharing technical information across borders.

Requirements:

• Ability to travel +25%

• Understanding of engineering concepts across software and hardware and development principles to be able to craft policies and procedures to segregate commercial and export controlled technology development

• Strong understanding of the U.S. and non-U.S. export regulations, including relevant classifications pertaining to aerospace parts, electronics, computers, IT equipment, encryption technology, and navigational hardware, etc.

• +10 years experience in product development, defence technology, startups, defence contracting or similar

• +5 years experience in trade compliance, international trade controls, international contracts management

• A superpower for smashing through regulatory roadblocks

• Ability to obtain and maintain a NV2 Security Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with AUKUS partnership frameworks, including export compliance, license management, and cross-border collaboration requirements

• Experience with customs and import filings, including managing Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), temporary imports, and processing ATA Carnets for duty-free and tax-free international transactions

• Experience in group 3-5 UAS, UUVs, or robotic systems product development or concepts

• Experience working with or supporting government contracts

• Experience in managing development infrastructure and training technical teams

• Experience designing and implementing technology control plans

• An understanding of the distinctives and intersection of Lean Product and Process Development, Agile Software Development, and Lean Production

• Knowledge of exportability considerations and experience incorporating export control compliance into product development plans

• Understanding of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) guidelines

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The International Trade Compliance team is responsible for providing strategic, high-level trade compliance advice and guidance to internal business and engineering teams as well as owning day-to-day tactical execution.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving international trade controls and policies to protect and guide the development of commercial dual-use and defence technology across the APAC region, as an expert in applicable US and non-US export control laws and regulations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Design and implement trade compliance policies, protections, and infrastructure to ensure engineering/program development meets schedule objectives, consistent with ITAR, EAR, and local country laws/regulations of EU, UK, or Australia.

• Coordinate with external partners (e.g., customers, suppliers, in-region government agencies, etc.) to ensure product roadmaps align with internal compliance posture and pivot accordingly.

• Develop country-specific classification decision rationale, heuristics and methodology for Anduril programs to improve efficiency in classification while maintaining accuracy.

• Leverage AI for rapid risk-mitigated determinations.

• Support the release of technology and data to internal and external stakeholders.

• Deploy and maintain country-specific J/C training curricula and robust methodologies to meet cost and performance metrics.

• Apply for and manage country-specific export authorizations, when required.

• Oversee country-specific export authorizations, ensuring compliance with license scope, provisos and associated conditions.

• Support the logistics team on hardware exports and imports as appropriate.

• Provide guidance and training to Anduril regional teams on ITAR, EAR and country-specific regulations as appropriate.

• Perform compliance assessments, identifying and mitigating compliance risks, of export/import authorizations and related transactions and assist in any investigations of potential compliance issues.

• Lead working groups, independent projects, and collaborative efforts with within the compliance function or cross-functionally driving ITC program enhancements.

• Support and implement corrective actions that result from compliance issues.

• Navigate co-production, co-development, and offset projects across multiple countries, ensuring compliance with US export regulations and country-specific trade laws.

• Manage Defence export portal for license applications, tracking, and reporting (RR).

• Evaluate and review commodities, including hardware, software, and technical data, for export license eligibility under AUKUS and other international trade control frameworks.

• Communicate and collaborate with regulators and outside counsel to address export compliance matters.

• Stay updated on regulatory changes and export compliance requirements, providing timely insights and guidance to leadership.

• Provide guidance on the use of collaborative environments for sharing technical information across borders.

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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.

About the Team

The Frontier Red Team (FRT) is a small, focused technical research team within Anthropic's Policy organization. Our goal is to make the entire world safer in this era of advanced AI by understanding what these systems can do and building the defenses that matter.

In 2026, we're focused on researching and ensuring safety with self-improving, highly autonomous AI systems—especially ones with cyberphysical capabilities. See our previous related work on cyberdefense, robotics, and Project Vend. This is early-stage, high-conviction research with the potential for outsized impact.

About the Role

Our team is focused on a critical question: how do we defend against a world where powerful, autonomous, self-improving AI systems may be used adversarially?

As a Research Engineer on our team, you'll build and eval model organisms of autonomous systems and develop the defensive agents needed to counter them. This work sits at the intersection of AI capabilities research, security, and policy—what we learn directly shapes how Anthropic and the world prepare for advanced AI.

This is applied research with real-world stakes. Your work will inform decisions at the highest levels of the company, contribute to public demonstrations that shape policy discourse, and help build technical defenses that could matter enormously as AI systems become more capable.

What You'll Do

• Design and build autonomous AI systems that can use tools and operate across diverse environments—creating model organisms that help us understand and defend against advanced adversarial AI

• Create evals and training environments to understand and shape agent behavior in desirable ways

• Develop defensive agents that can detect, disrupt, or outcompete adversarial AI systems in realistic scenarios

• Interface Claude with hardware platforms (e.g. robotics, physical systems) to understand cyberphysical risks and defenses

• Translate technical findings into compelling demonstrations and artifacts that inform policymakers and the public

• Collaborate with external experts in cybersecurity, national security, and AI safety to scope and validate research directions

Sample Projects

• Developing systems where Claude controls diverse hardware and robotics platforms simultaneously

• Creating attack-defend simulations (CTFs, wargames, adversarial games) to test defensive AI capabilities

• Designing and implementing RL environments for training defensive agents

• Pointing autonomous systems at real-world security challenges to characterize risks and develop mitigations

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have strong software engineering skills, particularly in Python

• Have experience building and working with LLM-based agents or autonomous systems

• Are driven to find solutions to ambiguously scoped, high-stakes problems

• Design and run experiments quickly, iterating fast toward useful results

• Thrive in collaborative environments (we love pair programming!)

• Care deeply about AI safety and want your work to have real-world impact on how humanity navigates advanced AI

• Can own entire problems end-to-end, including both technical and non-technical components

• Are comfortable working on sensitive projects that require discretion and integrity

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• Experience with reinforcement learning, self-play, or multi-agent systems

• Experience with robotics, hardware interfaces, or cyberphysical systems

• Track record of building demos or prototypes that communicate complex technical ideas

• Experience working with external stakeholders (policymakers, government, researchers)

• Familiarity with AI safety research and threat modeling for advanced AI systems

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. 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.

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.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiters to help us find the best candidates for our open roles.

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