Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Violence & Extremism

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

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst focused on Violence & Extremism to build and run scalable workflows that assess model behavior and drive enforcement decisions. You will help develop evals across policy areas and work with Engineering and Data Science to optimize detection and automated enforcement systems.

In this role you will review flagged content, surface policy gaps, and contribute to enforcement guidelines while staying current with emerging threats and regulatory

Qualifications

• Experience in policy enforcement or content review workflows.
• Experience with harmful content or violent extremism context.
• Ability to analyze large datasets and monitor workflow health.
• Experience with generative AI products and content review prompts.
• Familiarity with cross-platform threat analysis and OSINT.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable enforcement systems and review workflows.
• Develop evals to measure model performance on policy areas.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to optimize systems.
• Review flagged content to drive enforcement decisions.
• Provide policy gap feedback to the design team.
• Develop and maintain enforcement guidelines and docs.
• Stay updated on emerging threats and regulatory changes.
• Identify emerging misuse patterns and attack vectors.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Policy enforcement

Generative AI

Threat intelligence

OSINT

MITRE ATT&CK

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

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

As a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst focused on Violence & Extremism, you will be responsible for building and executing operational workflows to assess model behavior, drive enforcement decisions, and develop evals across a technically demanding range of policy areas. Your work spans detecting and mitigating attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems to facilitate real-world harm, including weapons and dangerous technology, critical infrastructure attacks, violent extremism, and threats of violence.

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 violent, graphic, hateful, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Key responsibilities

• Design and architect automated enforcement systems and review workflows that scale effectively while maintaining high accuracy
• Develop and maintain evals that measure model performance on these policy areas, surface regressions, and inform policy and model improvements
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science to optimize detection and automated enforcement systems for potential policy violations
• Review flagged content to drive enforcement decisions and surface policy gaps, with particular attention to novel or technically sophisticated misuse attempts + emerging extremist movements, ideologies, and mobilization tactics
• Support the Safeguards policy design team by providing structured feedback on policy gaps and enforcement ambiguities based on real enforcement scenarios
• Develop and maintain enforcement guidelines and reviewer documentation that enable accurate, consistent enforcement across a wide range of content
• Keep up to date with emerging threats, terrorist and extremist movements, regulatory changes, and AI policy enforcement best practices, and apply these to inform our workflows and evals
• Identify and elevate emerging misuse patterns, novel attack vectors, and signs of coordinated violent extremist activity

Minimum qualifications

• Experience in policy enforcement, threat intelligence, counterterrorism, government, or a closely related field, with direct exposure to harmful content, dangerous technology, violent extremism, or physical harm facilitation
• Experience standing up and scaling policy enforcement or content review workflows
• Proficiency in SQL and/or other data analysis tools to draw insights from large datasets and monitor enforcement workflow health
• Experience identifying emerging risks and threat actors, and communicating findings to a diverse set of stakeholders, such as Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal teams
• Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review and enforcement
• Understanding of the challenges involved in implementing product policies at scale, including in the content moderation space

Preferred qualifications

• Subject matter expertise in one or more high-stakes harm areas, such as weapons and dangerous technology, violent extremism, terrorism, autonomous systems, or critical infrastructure protection
• Familiarity with relevant legal and regulatory frameworks governing dangerous technology, critical infrastructure, or domestic/international terrorism
• Experience developing evals or red‑teaming AI systems, particularly for harmful content or policy enforcement use cases
• Experience with threat actor profiling and threat intelligence frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK)
• Experience tracking threat actors, extremist networks, or misuse patterns across surface, deep, and dark web environments
• Experience with large language models and an understanding of how AI technology could provide meaningful uplift toward serious harm
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and workflow automation
• Background in law enforcement, national security, defense, counterterrorism, or a relevant regulatory environment
• Experience assessing the technical plausibility and real-world harm potential of content, including the ability to distinguish between general educational content and genuine operational uplift, and between protected speech and genuine incitement/mobilization
• Familiarity with cross‑platform threat analysis and OSINT techniques

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

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. 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.