Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (AI)

Location: Hybrid role based in San Francisco, New York City, or Washington, DC; staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $245,000–$285,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and operate scalable automated enforcement systems and review workflows for detecting and mitigating harmful use of AI systems.
• Own layered age-assurance measures including self-declaration, behavioral signals, verification, and ban appeals for consumer products.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to improve detection models and automated policy enforcement.
• Review flagged content and provide feedback that improves enforcement policies and identifies policy gaps.
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, Privacy, Product, and platform stakeholders on proportionate, privacy-preserving age assurance and third-party deployments.
• Support adjacent user-well-being enforcement, including policies involving sexual content and illicit substances.

Requirements

• Experience in trust and safety, online child safety, age assurance, privacy, product policy, or a related field.
• Subject-matter expertise in age assurance or verification, age-appropriate design, child online safety, privacy-preserving verification, or content classification for young people.
• Experience leading cross-functional work with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners.
• Knowledge of age-assurance regulations and enforcement practices, including the UK AADC, COPPA, DSA, CSAM/CSEM, NCII, and digital well-being.
• Strong written communication, judgment, and ability to use SQL or similar tools to measure outcomes and inform decisions.
• The role may involve exposure to explicit sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing content and includes on-call responsibility across Policy and Enforcement teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with age-gating flows, age-estimation signals, underage account detection, or appeals workflows.
• Experience advising third-party platforms on safe deployments for younger users.
• Experience evaluating third-party age-verification providers.
• Experience writing prompts for generative AI systems in content review or enforcement contexts.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment focused on large-scale AI research and trustworthy, steerable systems.
• Competitive compensation with optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours and office-based collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility; immigration counsel is provided.