Enforcement Analyst, Agentic Alignment

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 245,000 - 285,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Optional equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

SF office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking an Enforcement Analyst focused on Agentic Alignment to investigate harmful model behaviors and make enforcement decisions. You will collaborate with Policy, Threat Intel, Engineering, Research, and Transparency teams, while handling on-call duties and content exposure.

The role emphasizes rigorous documentation and cross-functional collaboration. The position requires strong technical understanding, structured investigative ability, and a clear written communication

Qualifications

• Can read and understand code (Python, JavaScript, shell) to follow what happened and why it matters.
• Background in security, cyber threat intelligence, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Review and investigate potential instances of Agentic Misalignment using transcripts, tool-use traces, and code.
• Triage cases by severity and urgency and communicate through appropriate channels.
• Operationalize review pipelines for agentic cases and translate leads into scalable workflows.
• Make enforcement decisions under the Usage Policy and document reasoning for each decision.
• Assess cyber-related agentic activity to determine real-world harm potential.
• Write clear, well-evidenced case write-ups for enforcement peers and leadership.
• Identify patterns across cases and feed findings back to policy, detection, and research teams.
• Maintain rigorous documentation of enforcement decisions and precedents.

Skills

Code reading

Security background

Investigations

Enforcement actions

Written communication

Judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Field relevant to the role

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and society as a whole. As an Enforcement Analyst focused on Agentic Alignment, you will play a crucial role in identifying and investigating harmful and unexpected behavior by models, and make enforcement decisions accordingly. You'll work closely with a suite of cross-functional teams, within and outside of Safeguards, including: Policy, Threat Intel, Engineering, Research, and Transparency. Your work will be essential in maintaining Anthropic's commitment to safe and beneficial AI as Claude takes on more autonomous work.

Important context for this role: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature. There is also an on-call responsibility across the Policy and Enforcement teams.

Key responsibilities

• Review and investigate potential instances of Agentic Misalignment, working from transcripts, tool-use traces, and code
• Triage cases by severity and urgency and share through the appropriate channels
• Help operationalize review pipelines for agentic cases, translating leads from detection outputs and investigations into structured review workflows that scale
• Make enforcement decisions under the Usage Policy, applying it consistently to novel agentic scenarios and across surfaces, and documenting the reasoning behind each decision
• Assess cyber-related agentic activity, such as scanning, exploitation attempts, credential misuse or malicious code to determine its real-world harm potential
• Write clear, well-evidenced case write-ups for audiences ranging from enforcement peers to senior leadership
• Identify patterns and trends across cases, and close the loop between enforcement outcomes and upstream improvements by feeding findings back to policy, detection and research teams to improve policies, classifiers and model behavior
• Maintain rigorous documentation of enforcement decisions, review logic and precedents to build institutional knowledge
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Research, Engineering and Policy partners so that detection coverage keeps pace with how agentic misuse and misaligned behavior evolve
• Use AI systems, including Claude, to accelerate your own investigations: summarizing long transcripts, analyzing code, querying data and building lightweight tooling
• Contribute to regular reports on agentic harm trends and enforcement outcomes

Minimum qualifications

• Can read and understand code (for example Python, JavaScript or shell scripts) well enough to follow what happened and why it matters
• Have a background in security, cyber threat intelligence, or a similar technical field that lets you understand how cyber harm happens and judge its severity
• Have experience in trust and safety, enforcement, investigations or a related field, translating ambiguous policy questions and facts into defensible enforcement decisions and clear written findings
• Have conducted structured investigations, building a case from first signal to final finding and knowing when the evidence is strong enough to act on
• Have supported or contributed to formal enforcement actions, including case documentation, evidence packaging and escalation coordination
• Write clearly and concisely, and can present complex findings to stakeholders across Legal, Policy and Engineering, including non-technical audiences
• Have sound judgment about when a case needs escalation, and the resilience to work with difficult content

Preferred qualifications

• Have demonstrated use of AI systems to accelerate your own work, and are excited to keep finding new ways to do so
• Are comfortable working with large volumes of data, from long transcripts, logs and traces to complex, multi-table datasets, and surfacing the behavioral patterns that matter
• Are curious about how AI agents behave, and enjoy investigating behavior no one has categorized before, building approaches where established playbooks don’t exist
• Have familiarity with AI safety and alignment, and current debates about the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems

Annual Salary:
$245,000 — $285,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.