Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Access Controls & Identity

Anthropic; Friendly (MD); Hybrid; USD 285,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst on the account abuse team to build and run enforcement workflows that keep our products safe. You will focus on detecting harm and shaping policy layers for access controls and identity verification, operating at the intersection of policy, operations, and regulatory exposure.

You will own the policy framework for what we ask users, when, and on what grounds, and you will collaborate with Legal, Public Policy, Privacy, and Product to ensure

Qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, integrity, or risk policy work.
• Hands-on operational experience with live enforcement queues.
• Subject matter expertise in KYC or identity verification.
• Experience navigating evolving regulatory landscapes (e.g., DSA, GDPR) as design constraints.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners.

Responsibilities

• Set collection policy for identity signals: what we request, in which enforcement states, and what evidence reinstates access.
• Improve verification program health — accuracy, appeal coverage, and consistency of outcomes.
• Own access policy for hard cases, including geographic restrictions and reseller arrangements.
• Run the operational queue for access‑control cases with contractor support, drafting playbooks and QAing outcomes.
• Coordinate with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep our approach proportionate and privacy-preserving.
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices to inform decisions.

Skills

Trust & Safety policy

Operational enforcement

Identity verification

Cross-functional teamwork

SQL familiarity

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Relevant field of study

Tools

SQL

Job description

About the role

As a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst on the account abuse team, you will build and execute enforcement workflows that keep our products safe, with a focus on detecting and mitigating potential harm. Your focus will be driving a number of enforcement areas including access controls and identity verification. You will own the policy layer of these systems: what we ask users for, when, on what grounds, and what passes. The work sits at the intersection of policy, operations, and regulatory exposure.

This position may expand into broader areas of enforcement over time. Safety is core to our mission, and you will help shape policy enforcement so that our users can safely interact with and build on top of our products in a harmless, helpful, and honest way.

Key responsibilities

• Set collection policy for identity signals: what we request, in which enforcement states, and what evidence reinstates access
• Improve verification program health — accuracy, appeal coverage, and consistency of outcomes
• Own access policy for hard cases, including geographic restrictions and reseller arrangements
• Run the operational queue for access‑control cases alongside contractor support, authoring playbooks and QA'ing scaled review output
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep our approach proportionate, privacy‑preserving, and responsive to an evolving regulatory landscape
• Coordinate enforcement consistency with third‑party platform partners
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, and use these to inform our decision‑making and workflows
• Stand up graduated enforcement in practice — verification requests, conditional reinstatement, and appeal pathways that satisfy regulatory requirements for automated decisions

Minimum qualifications

• Experience in trust & safety, integrity, or risk policy work
• Hands‑on operational experience — you’ve owned or quality‑checked live enforcement queues, not only authored policy
• Subject matter expertise in one or more of: KYC, identity verification, age or identity assurance, or verification program operations
• Experience navigating evolving regulatory landscapes (including frameworks like the DSA and GDPR) as design constraints rather than blockers
• Experience driving cross‑functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners — especially where safety, privacy, and usability tradeoffs need to be navigated together
• Comfort using data (SQL or similar tools) to measure what’s working and inform decisions
• Strong written communication skills, with experience producing clear briefs and recommendations for technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Excellent judgment and the ability to make consistent, defensible calls on ambiguous cases

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with graduated/tiered enforcement systems rather than binary ban models
• Experience with geographic access restrictions, sanctions screening, or reseller/channel policy
• Experience building or scaling a contractor review bench
• A deep interest in AI safety and responsible technology development
• Experience writing effective prompts for generative AI systems in a content review or enforcement context

Compensation

Annual Salary: $285,000 – $330,000 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. 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.

Benefits

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.