Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (Bio Harms)

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.

Annual salary: $245,000–$285,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Enforce Usage Policies focused on detecting and mitigating biological and related CBRNE risks in AI system use.
• Own and improve end-to-end enforcement monitoring, investigation, triage, and escalation workflows for bio harms.
• Monitor platform activity and analyze emerging biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, and explosive threat patterns.
• Design scalable automated enforcement systems and review workflows while maintaining high detection accuracy.
• Investigate potential violations, document evidence, handle escalations, and provide feedback on policy gaps.
• Partner with Engineering, Data Science, Policy, and Threat Intelligence teams to improve detection models and safety systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry, public health, or another relevant field.
• Experience in Trust & Safety, content moderation, or policy enforcement at platform scale.
• Experience using generative AI tools to improve content review and enforcement workflows.
• Experience using AI tools to develop data dashboards and collect workflow metrics.
• Ability to make defensible decisions in complex, ambiguous, time-sensitive situations.
• Clear written communication skills and the ability to explain technical biological concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have

• Expertise in biodefense, biosecurity, WMD/CBRNE non-proliferation, or threat intelligence.
• Knowledge of adversary intent, acquisition and weaponization pathways, dual-use risks, OSINT, and cross-platform threat analysis.
• Proficiency in SQL or other data analysis tools.
• Familiarity with DURC, select agents, and relevant policy frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment spanning research, engineering, policy, and business disciplines.
• Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, and competitive benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching and office-based collaboration.
• Shared on-call responsibility across the Policy and Enforcement teams.
• The role may involve exposure to explicit, violent, sexual, or psychologically disturbing content.

Hiring process

• Candidate AI usage is governed by Anthropic’s application-process policy.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility; immigration counsel is provided.