Safeguards Enforcement Analyst (Cybersecurity)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Washington, DC. Hybrid policy: staff are expected to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office attendance. Weekend and holiday escalation coverage may be required.

Annual salary: $285,000–$330,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Review flagged content and accounts and make accurate, well-documented enforcement decisions under usage policies.
• Detect and mitigate misuse of AI systems for cyberattacks, malware creation, exploitation tooling, and related harmful cyber operations.
• Triage and escalate novel, ambiguous, and high-severity cases to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide feedback on policy gaps identified through real enforcement scenarios.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to identify detection model errors and quality signals, improving precision and recall.
• Track emerging AI policy enforcement practices, threat actor tactics, and the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.
• Experience in cybersecurity, including offensive techniques, exploit development, malware analysis, or vulnerability research.
• Experience with content review, abuse investigations, or policy enforcement at scale.
• Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data analysis and threat detection.
• Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to Product, Policy, Engineering, Data Science, and Legal stakeholders.
• Experience with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review and enforcement.

Nice to have

• Experience in trust and safety, abuse investigations, cybersecurity investigations, or threat intelligence at a technology or AI company.
• Experience with large language models and AI misuse in cyber operations.
• Experience with abuse monitoring programs or enforcement review systems.
• Experience working with government agencies, regulated environments, or information-sharing communities.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work on large-scale AI safety and research efforts.
• Flexible working hours and office-based collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available where feasible, with immigration lawyer support.
• Exposure to explicit violent, technical, or psychologically disturbing content may be part of the role.

Hiring process

• Applicants may use AI in the application process according to Anthropic’s candidate AI usage policy.