Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (AI)

Location: New York City, NY; remote-friendly with travel required; San Francisco, CA; or Washington, DC. Staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $245,000–$330,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Design and scale automated enforcement systems and content-review workflows while maintaining high accuracy.
• Develop and maintain evaluations that measure model performance, identify regressions, and inform policy and model improvements.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to improve detection and automated enforcement systems.
• Review flagged content, make enforcement decisions, and identify policy gaps and sophisticated misuse attempts.
• Develop enforcement guidelines and reviewer documentation for consistent decisions across diverse content.
• Monitor emerging weapons trends, regulatory changes, misuse patterns, attack vectors, and coordinated violent activity.

Requirements

• Deep applied expertise in weapons systems and the ability to translate complex technical evidence into enforcement decisions.
• Experience in policy enforcement, threat intelligence, counterterrorism, government, or a related field involving harmful content, dangerous technology, or physical-harm facilitation.
• Experience creating and scaling policy-enforcement or content-review workflows.
• Proficiency in SQL or other data-analysis tools for analyzing large datasets and monitoring workflow health.
• Experience identifying emerging risks and threat actors and communicating findings to Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal stakeholders.
• Experience with generative AI products, effective prompting for content review, and implementing product policies at scale.

Nice to have

• Expertise in conventional weapons, dangerous technology, autonomous systems, or critical infrastructure protection.
• Experience developing evaluations or red-teaming AI systems, including harmful-content and policy-enforcement use cases.
• Experience with threat-actor profiling, MITRE ATT&CK, OSINT, and cross-platform threat analysis.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and workflow automation.
• Background in law enforcement, national security, defense, counterterrorism, or relevant regulation.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business disciplines.
• Competitive compensation with optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours and office collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.

Hiring process

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience is required.
• The required field of study must be relevant to the role through coursework, training, or professional experience.