Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Violence & Extremism

Title: Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Violence & Extremism Location: Remote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC

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 escalate 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