Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Access Controls & Identity

Details

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.

This role sits on the account abuse team focused on detecting and mitigating potential harm by building and executing enforcement workflows, with a particular focus on access controls and identity verification. The role owns the policy layer of these systems (what is requested from users, when, on what grounds, and what evidence reinstates access) and works at the intersection of policy, operations, and regulatory exposure. The position may expand into broader enforcement areas over time.

Responsibilities

• Set collection policy for identity signals: what to 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; author playbooks and QA scaled review output
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep approaches proportionate, privacy-preserving, and responsive to evolving regulatory landscapes
• Coordinate enforcement consistency with third-party platform partners
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices and use them to inform decision-making and workflows
• Stand up graduated enforcement in practice — verification requests, conditional reinstatement, and appeal pathways that satisfy regulatory requirements for automated decisions

Requirements (Minimum qualifications)

• Experience in trust & safety, integrity, or risk policy work
• Hands-on operational experience — 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
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners, especially where safety, privacy, and usability tradeoffs are involved
• 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: Will correlate with internal job level requirements for the position
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more time in office)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to help with sponsorship when an offer is made

Company & culture notes

• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. They highlight competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration spaces.