Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Violence & Extremism
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What the team is looking for.
As a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst focused on Violence & Extremism, you will build and execute 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.
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
- Support the Safeguards policy design team by providing structured feedback on policy gaps and enforcement ambiguities
- Develop and maintain enforcement guidelines and reviewer documentation
- Keep up to date with emerging threats, terrorist and extremist movements, regulatory changes, and AI policy enforcement best practices
- 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
- Experience standing up and scaling policy enforcement or content review workflows
- Proficiency in SQL and/or other data analysis tools
- Experience identifying emerging risks and threat actors
- Experience working with generative AI products
- Understanding of the challenges involved in implementing product policies at scale
Preferred Qualifications:
- Subject matter expertise in high-stakes harm areas
- Familiarity with relevant legal and regulatory frameworks
- Experience developing evals or red-teaming AI systems
- Experience with threat actor profiling and threat intelligence frameworks
- Experience tracking threat actors, extremist networks, or misuse patterns
- Experience with large language models
- Proficiency in Python for data analysis and workflow automation
- Background in law enforcement, national security, defense, counterterrorism, or a relevant regulatory environment
Logistics:
- Annual Salary: $285,000-$330,000 USD
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
- SQL
- data analysis
- policy enforcement
- threat intelligence
- counterterrorism
- generative AI
- Python
- large language models
- threat actor profiling
- OSINT techniques
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