Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Age-Appropriate Design

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The user well-being team builds and executes enforcement workflows that keep products safe, with a focus on detecting and mitigating potential harm. This role focuses on how Anthropic handles age: ensuring consumer products reach the right audiences by designing detection signals, verification paths, and appeals workflows that keep underage users off surfaces not designed for them. The role also supports enforcement for third-party developers using the API and may expand into broader user well-being enforcement over time.

Important context for this role: you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing material. There is also an on-call responsibility across the Policy and Enforcement teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect automated enforcement systems and review workflows that scale effectively while maintaining high accuracy
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to optimize detection models for policy violations and automated enforcement systems
• Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements
• Enforce usage policies with a focus on detecting and mitigating potentially harmful uses of AI systems
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep age assurance approaches proportionate, privacy-preserving, and responsive to an evolving regulatory landscape
• Support the Safeguards policy design team by providing detailed feedback on policy gaps based on real enforcement scenarios
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices and use these to inform decision-making and workflows
• Own Anthropic's layered age assurance approach: self-declaration, behavioral signals, verification, and ban appeals for first-party consumer products
• Address adjacent user well-being enforcement where age affects policy application, such as sexual content and illicit substances

Minimum qualifications

• Experience in trust and safety, online child safety, age assurance, privacy, product policy, or a related field
• Subject matter expertise in one or more of: age assurance/verification systems, age-appropriate design, child online safety, privacy-preserving verification methods, or content classification for young people
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners, especially navigating safety, privacy, and usability tradeoffs
• Experience navigating evolving regulatory landscapes and enforcement best practices related to age assurance (including frameworks like the UK AADC, COPPA, and the DSA), CSAM/CSEM, NCII, and digital well-being
• A thoughtful perspective on privacy/safety tradeoffs inherent in age verification, including when less invasive approaches are appropriate
• Strong written communication skills and experience producing clear briefs and recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Comfort using data (SQL or similar tools) to measure what's working and inform decisions
• Excellent judgment and the ability to collaborate while navigating rapidly evolving priorities and workstreams

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building or operating age-gating flows, age estimation signals, underage account detection, or appeals workflows
• Experience advising or partnering with third-party platforms on deploying safely to younger users
• Experience working with or evaluating third-party age verification providers
• 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: $245,000 - $285,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Minimum years of experience: correlates with internal job level requirements
• Location-based hybrid policy: currently expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time (some roles may require more)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic does sponsor visas and retains an immigration lawyer; sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate but the company will make reasonable efforts if an offer is made

Notes

• Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The team emphasizes collaboration, communication, and large-scale research impact. The role may require on-call duties and involves exposure to sensitive content.