Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Cyber Harms
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
- Salary range
- USD $285,000 – $330,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Senior / Staff IC
- Job family
- AI Safety
- Posted
- 6 weeks ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M4, Senior Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Investigations & Threat Intel is $230k to $320k 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: the title reads as P3, on the other track · posts $285k to $330k base at a frontier lab · manages people.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Anthropic's posting.
Manages enforcement against misuse of an AI model for malicious cyber operations, including cyberattacks, malware development and offensive exploitation tooling. The role leads a team of enforcement analysts and contractors and builds strategy for detecting and mitigating flagged activity across the company's products and services. It sits within Safeguards and works with Policy, Engineering and Data Science on enforcement gaps.
What you'd do
- Lead the analyst and contractor team and define the direction of cyber enforcement.
- Build strategies to detect and mitigate AI misuse for cyberattacks, malware creation and exploitation tooling.
- Handle novel, ambiguous or high-severity cases with stakeholders.
- Feed policy gaps found in real enforcement scenarios back to the Safeguards Policy Design Team.
- Work with Engineering and Data Science so tooling and measurement support enforcement operations.
- Track threat actor tactics and the evolving cyber threat landscape to inform enforcement decisions.
What it asks for
- Experience as a people manager.
- Cybersecurity background covering attack techniques, exploit writing, malware analysis or vulnerability research.
- Experience with content review, abuse investigations or policy enforcement at volume.
- Skilled in SQL, Python or both for analyzing data and spotting threats.
- Experience identifying emerging risks and briefing Product, Policy, Engineering and Legal stakeholders.
- Hands-on work with generative AI tools, including crafting prompts used to review content and enforce policy.
- Experience in trust and safety, abuse or cyber investigations, or threat intelligence at a tech or AI company (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Exposure to explicit content, including violent, technical and psychologically disturbing material.
- Escalation responses required on weekends and holidays.
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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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