Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (AI)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Washington, DC. Hybrid policy requires staff to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office attendance.

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.
• Review flagged content, make enforcement decisions, identify policy gaps, and investigate novel misuse attempts.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to optimize detection and automated enforcement systems.
• Develop enforcement guidelines and reviewer documentation for consistent decisions across complex content.
• Monitor emerging weapons trends, threat actors, attack vectors, and coordinated violent activity.

Requirements

• Deep applied expertise in weapons systems and the ability to translate 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 building and scaling policy enforcement or content review workflows.
• Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools for working with large datasets and monitoring workflow health.
• Experience identifying emerging risks 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 for harmful-content or policy-enforcement use cases.
• Threat actor profiling, threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, and cross-platform OSINT analysis.
• Experience tracking extremist networks or misuse patterns across surface, deep, and dark web environments.
• Python proficiency and experience in law enforcement, national security, defense, counterterrorism, or regulatory environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business disciplines.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours and an office environment designed for collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship may be available, with immigration-lawyer support, depending on the role and candidate.
• Exposure to explicit violent, graphic, hateful, or psychologically disturbing content is part of the role.