Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Cyber Harm

Details

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

This role focuses on reviewing content and executing enforcement actions across Anthropic products and services, with a primary focus on detecting and mitigating misuse of AI systems for malicious cyber operations (e.g., cyberattacks, malware development, offensive exploitation). The position involves high-volume review, triage, escalations, and close partnership with Engineering and Data Science to improve detection systems. The role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays and exposure to violent, technical, or psychologically disturbing content.

Responsibilities

• Review flagged content and accounts to make accurate, well-documented enforcement decisions in line with usage policies
• Detect and mitigate potential misuse of AI systems to facilitate cyberattacks, malware creation, exploitation tooling, and related harmful cyber operations
• Triage and escalate novel, ambiguous, or high-severity cases to appropriate stakeholders
• Provide detailed feedback to the Safeguards policy design team on policy gaps surfaced through real enforcement scenarios
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams by surfacing detection model errors and quality signals from review to improve precision and recall
• Maintain high accuracy and consistency standards across review queues
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, threat actor tactics, and the evolving cyber threat landscape, using these to inform enforcement decisions

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• Experience in cybersecurity, including knowledge of offensive techniques, exploit development, malware analysis, or vulnerability research
• Experience performing content review, abuse investigations, or policy enforcement at volume
• Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data analysis and threat detection
• Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to stakeholders such as Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal teams
• Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review and enforcement

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in trust & safety, abuse investigations, cybersecurity investigations, or threat intelligence in a technology or AI company
• Experience with large language models and understanding of how AI technology could be misused for cyber operations
• Experience operating within abuse monitoring programs or enforcement review systems
• Understanding of challenges involved in implementing product policies at scale, including content moderation
• Experience working with government agencies, regulated environments, or information sharing communities

Important context

• This role may expose you to explicit, violent, technical, or psychologically disturbing content
• The role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays

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 required will correlate with internal job level requirements
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, staff are expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time (role is remote-friendly)
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer to assist, though sponsorship isn’t guaranteed for every role or candidate