
Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Safety Evaluations
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
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- On site
- Full-time
- $270,000 / year
- San Francisco, CA
Job highlights
- Enforce AI policies to ensure platform safety.
- Conduct and monitor model safety evaluations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on mitigations.
- Develop scalable processes and documentation for evaluations.
- Drive improvements in model behavior and safety standards.
About the role
About Anthropic
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.About The Role
Anthropic's Safeguards team is responsible for enforcing our policies, protecting users, and ensuring our platform is not misused. As a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst focused on Safety Evaluations, you'll play a central role in ensuring our models meet safety and policy standards before and after launch. You'll run and monitor evaluations, drive mitigations when issues surface, coordinate the creation of new evals, and help build the processes and documentation that allow the team to scale this work over time. This role requires someone who is detail-oriented, comfortable navigating ambiguity, and capable of coordinating across teams to break new ground and drive work to completion. This work is deeply cross-functional — you'll partner closely with policy experts, Safeguards engineering teams, and many other stakeholders throughout the organization to ensure our evaluations are comprehensive and current, and that findings translate into meaningful improvements to model behavior.Responsibilities
- Support model launch readiness by running evaluations, monitoring and interpreting results, and surfacing regressions or unexpected behavior changes to relevant stakeholders
- Partner closely with policy and domain experts throughout the evaluation lifecycle — from identifying risks and scoping the right evaluation approach, to coordinating creation of new evals and ensuring existing ones remain current with evolving policies, threat vectors, and model capabilities
- Work with cross-functional stakeholders to help manage evaluation outcomes, including interpreting results and driving mitigations where needed
- Think strategically about eval quality to build processes and eval paradigms that keep evaluations unsaturated, high-signal, and insightful as models improve
- Build out processes and frameworks for creating product-specific evaluations as Anthropic's product surface area expands
- Help design and scope tooling improvements that accommodate evolving eval needs and expand self-serve eval creation and iteration for non-technical users
- Write and maintain rigorous documentation for evaluation creation, execution, and interpretation as the team builds out eval tooling and processes
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Have experience in trust and safety, content operations, policy enforcement, or a related operational role at a technology company
- Thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments — you're energized rather than frustrated when the path forward isn't clearly defined and you need to figure it out as you go
- Have experience building processes, workflows, or programs from scratch (zero-to-one work), not just maintaining existing ones
- Have strong program management instincts, naturally creating structure around complex, multi-stakeholder efforts by tracking timelines, dependencies, and deliverables to keep work on track
- Are eager to expand your technical toolkit, including adopting internal tools and AI-assisted workflows (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate your work
- Can manage multiple concurrent workstreams across different domain areas without losing track of details — strong prioritization and context-switching are essential when deadlines and priorities shift quickly
- Are a strong generalist comfortable moving fluidly across different types of work and switching contexts throughout the day
- Are comfortable making judgment calls with incomplete information and escalating appropriately when needed
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both in writing and cross-functionally
Strong Candidates May Also Have
- Experience operating under tight, high-stakes timelines — such as product launch cycles, incident response, or regulatory deadlines — where information and priorities can shift with little notice
- Experience coordinating across engineering, policy, and product teams to translate findings into concrete action
- Experience building and maintaining SOPs, runbooks, and operational documentation in fast-changing environments
- Proficiency with data tools (SQL, dashboards, spreadsheets) sufficient to maintain and improve workflows
- Comfort working with sensitive content areas as part of eval creation or enforcement review responsibilities
Annual Salary
$230,000—$270,000 USDLogistics
- Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. Come work with us! Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application processKey skills/competency
- Trust and Safety Operations
- Policy Enforcement
- Program Management
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Risk Identification
- Process Development
- Data Analysis
- Documentation
- AI Safety Evaluations
- Ambiguity Navigation
Skills & topics
- Safeguards Enforcement Analyst
- AI Safety
- Policy Enforcement
- Trust and Safety
- Operations
- Program Management
- Risk Assessment
- Evaluation
- Ambiguity
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- SQL
- Dashboards
- Spreadsheets
- Content Operations
- AI Ethics
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight experience in trust and safety, policy enforcement, and program management. Quantify achievements in process building and cross-functional coordination for Safeguards Enforcement Analyst roles.
- Craft a compelling application: Emphasize your ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and your experience with zero-to-one initiatives. Showcase strong communication and problem-solving skills relevant to Anthropic's mission.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your approach to risk identification, evaluation methodologies, and driving mitigations. Prepare examples demonstrating your program management instincts and comfort with incomplete information.
- Research Anthropic's values: Understand their mission to build safe and beneficial AI. Align your responses with their focus on impact, collaboration, and rigorous scientific approaches to AI safety.
Technical preparation
Familiarize yourself with AI safety concepts.,Practice evaluating model behavior and identifying risks.,Strengthen skills in data analysis with SQL.,Learn about AI-assisted workflows like Claude Code.
Behavioral questions
Describe a time you managed ambiguity.,How do you coordinate complex projects?,Give an example of zero-to-one work.,How do you ensure clear communication?
Frequently asked questions
- What is the typical career path for a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst at Anthropic?
- While specific paths vary, a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst at Anthropic often progresses by deepening expertise in AI safety evaluations, policy enforcement, and program management. Opportunities may include specializing in specific types of evaluations, leading larger-scale safety initiatives, or moving into roles with more direct impact on AI model development and policy strategy. Advancement often involves demonstrating leadership in complex, cross-functional projects and contributing to the scaling of Anthropic's safety processes.
- How does Anthropic handle visa sponsorship for international candidates applying for the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst role?
- Anthropic does sponsor visas for eligible roles and candidates. If you receive an offer for the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst position, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to secure the necessary visa, working with an immigration lawyer to facilitate the process. While they aim to support all successful candidates, visa sponsorship availability can depend on the specific role and individual circumstances.
- What does Anthropic mean by 'location-based hybrid policy' for this role?
- Anthropic's location-based hybrid policy for the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst role means that employees are expected to be in one of their offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles might require more frequent in-office presence. This policy aims to balance the benefits of in-person collaboration with flexibility, ensuring team cohesion and a strong company culture while working on cutting-edge AI safety.
- How can I best demonstrate my ability to thrive in ambiguity for the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst role at Anthropic?
- To demonstrate your ability to thrive in ambiguity for the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst role, highlight past experiences where you successfully navigated unclear requirements, developed novel solutions, or established processes from scratch. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to provide concrete examples in your resume and interviews, emphasizing your proactive approach, problem-solving skills, and comfort with making judgment calls with incomplete information.
- What kind of technical skills are important for an Anthropic Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, beyond general operational experience?
- While not strictly a technical role, an Anthropic Safeguards Enforcement Analyst benefits from eagerness to expand their technical toolkit. This includes adopting internal tools, AI-assisted workflows (like Claude Code), and proficiency with data tools such as SQL, dashboards, and spreadsheets for workflow maintenance and improvement. Comfort with evaluating AI models and understanding their behavior is also crucial.