Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Chem & Explosives Harms
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
- Salary range
- USD $245,000 – $285,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 3 months ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $190k to $260k at a frontier lab. Key skills at this level: runs an investigation end to end, from signal to enforcement to writeup, builds and maintains the tradecraft others on the team follow, and works law enforcement and external referral pathways correctly.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: posts $245k to $285k base at a frontier lab · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Anthropic's posting.
Enforcement analyst role protecting against misuse of AI systems for chemical and explosives harms. The work covers reviewing real model interactions to separate benign research from credible attempts at harm, under the company's Usage Policy. The role sits in a Policy and Enforcement team and works with Threat Intelligence, Data Science and Engineering partners.
What you'd do
- Enforce the Usage Policy on chemical and explosives risks and harmful AI use.
- Own and improve enforcement monitoring workflows for detection, investigation, triage and escalation in this harm area.
- Monitor platform activity for emerging chemical and explosives threat patterns that may need policy updates or enforcement.
- Investigate potential violations and document evidence to support enforcement decisions.
- Work with Engineering and Data Science to refine detection models and automated enforcement tooling.
- Give enforcement-grounded feedback on policy gaps and handle time-sensitive chemical and explosives escalations.
What it asks for
- Chemistry degree or equivalent professional background in a related field.
- Background in trust and safety, moderation, or enforcement at large-platform scale.
- Experience with generative AI tools to refine content review and enforcement workflows.
- Experience using AI tools to build data dashboards for metrics.
- Ability to translate chemistry concepts for technical and non-technical audiences in writing.
- Background in chemical or explosives defense, security, CBRNE nonproliferation, or threat intel (preferred).
- SQL or other data analysis tools (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Exposure to explicit sexual, violent or psychologically disturbing content.
- Shared on-call responsibility across the Policy and Enforcement teams.
Terms in this role
- OSINT.
- Open-source intelligence: investigating with publicly available information, such as social media, public records, archived pages and imagery.
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About Anthropic
AI and model safety · San Francisco, CA · 1,001 to 5,000 people · Founded 2021
AI safety company building the Claude family of models.
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