Safeguards Policy Analyst, Cyber Harms (Cybersecurity)

Location: San Francisco, CA or Washington, DC; hybrid policy requires staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $190,000–$285,000 USD

Company

Anthropic develops reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Develop cyber product policy artifacts, including usage policies, help-center guidance, enforcement guidance, and launch policy notes.
• Analyze the constitution and cyber-related usage policies, maintain a gap log, and propose policy text improvements.
• Review enforcement decisions against policy requirements and work with threat intelligence and enforcement teams to maintain cyber safety standards.
• Coordinate cyber policy inputs for model releases, model-card reviews, regulatory requirements, and regulator briefings.
• Support controlled-access and access-requirements frameworks across existing and emerging programs.
• Translate technical evaluations, safeguards, probes, classifiers, and vulnerability material into policy positions and internal guidance.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to write clear policy analysis in a professional or academic setting.
• Familiarity with platform usage-policy enforcement, cybersecurity policy, standards, or regulatory frameworks such as NIST CSF or coordinated vulnerability disclosure.
• Ability to read and interpret technical security material, including vulnerability reports and threat assessments.
• Ability to collaborate across threat intelligence, enforcement, engineering, and policy teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience engaging with government agencies, regulators, or standards bodies on cybersecurity or AI matters.
• Experience with government information-sharing, incident-notification, vulnerability disclosure, model-release, or product-launch review processes.
• Trust-and-safety or product-policy experience at a technology platform.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business teams.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with individual eligibility assessed for each role and candidate.