Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (Bio Harms)

TL;DR

Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (Bio Harms): Enforce Anthropic’s Usage Policy with a focus on detecting and mitigating bio risks, investigating potential violations, and strengthening bio-harms safeguards with scalable monitoring workflows. Focus on making fast, well-reasoned enforcement decisions from real model interactions and building automated enforcement systems that maintain high accuracy across a technically complex content surface.

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems with safety as a core mission.

What you will do

• Enforce Usage Policies for bio harms by detecting and mitigating potential bio risks and harmful AI use.
• Own and improve end-to-end enforcement monitoring workflows for the bio-harms area, including detection, investigation, triage, and escalation.
• Monitor and analyze platform activity to identify emerging patterns tied to biological threats and adjacent CBRNE risks that may require policy updates or enforcement action.
• Design and architect automated enforcement systems and review workflows that scale while maintaining high accuracy.
• Conduct investigations of potential violations, gathering and documenting evidence to support enforcement decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally with Policy, Threat Intelligence, Data Science, and Engineering to optimize detection approaches and handle time-sensitive escalations.

Requirements

• Degree in a bio-related field (e.g., microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, public health) and/or relevant professional experience.
• Experience in Trust & Safety, content moderation, or policy enforcement at platform scale, including working with generative AI tools to refine enforcement workflows.
• Experience using AI tools to build data dashboards for metrics and continuous improvement.
• Ability to analyze complex, ambiguous situations and make defensible decisions under time pressure.
• Clear written communication and ability to translate technical bio concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Subject matter expertise in biodefense, biosecurity, WMD/CBRNE non-proliferation, or threat intelligence.
• Understanding of real-world biological risk (adversary intent, acquisition/weaponization pathways, dual-use concerns) and familiarity with cross-platform threat analysis and OSINT.
• Proficiency in SQL and/or other data analysis tools for insights from large datasets and monitoring enforcement workflow health.
• Familiarity with DURC, select agents, and relevant policy frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Location-based hybrid policy: expect to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time.
• Visa sponsorship available; reasonable efforts made if an offer is made, with support from an immigration lawyer.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.
• Shared on-call responsibility across Policy and Enforcement teams.

Hiring process

• Application process includes guidance on candidate AI usage.
• Recruiters contact candidates only from @anthropic.com (or vetted recruiting agencies); avoid requests for money or banking information before the first day.

Location: Remote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC

Salary: $245,000–$285,000 USD annually