Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Cyber Harms

Location: Remote-friendly but hybrid; staff are expected to be in one of the listed offices at least 25% of the time: Washington, DC, San Francisco, CA, or New York City, NY.

Annual salary: $285,000–$330,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Manage Cyber Enforcement Analysts and contractors and oversee the cyber enforcement strategy.
• Develop strategies to detect and mitigate misuse of AI systems for cyberattacks, malware creation, exploitation tooling, and related harmful cyber operations.
• Collaborate with Product, Policy, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, and other stakeholders on novel, ambiguous, and high-severity cases.
• Work with the Safeguards Policy Design Team to identify policy gaps through real enforcement scenarios.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to support enforcement tooling and measurement.
• Monitor emerging AI policy practices, threat actor tactics, and the evolving cyber threat landscape.

Requirements

• Experience managing people.
• Cybersecurity experience, including offensive techniques, exploit development, malware analysis, or vulnerability research.
• Experience with content review, abuse investigations, or high-volume policy enforcement.
• Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data analysis and threat detection.
• Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review and enforcement.

Nice to have

• Experience in trust and safety, abuse or 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 across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours, generous vacation and parental leave, and competitive benefits.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Regular research discussions focused on high-impact AI safety work.
• Visa sponsorship is available, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.
• The role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays and may involve exposure to violent, technical, or psychologically disturbing content.