Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Safety Evaluations

Anthropic • $230K — $270K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in trust and safety, policy enforcement, or a related role in tech
  • Experience in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
  • Proven track record of establishing processes from the ground up
  • Strong program management skills with the ability to organize complex projects
  • Familiarity with data tools like SQL to enhance workflows

Responsibilities

  • Run safety evaluations to assess model readiness before launch
  • Collaborate with policy experts to design and adjust evaluation strategies
  • Manage evaluation results and drive necessary improvements
  • Develop systems for high-quality, insightful evaluations as models evolve
  • Create processes for product-specific evaluations as the company expands
  • Identify and implement tooling improvements for evaluation practices
  • Keep comprehensive documentation of evaluation processes and results

Benefits

  • Hybrid work policy with flexibility for office attendance
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Competitive benefits package including generous vacation and parental leave
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Collaborative and creative workplace environment
  • Focus on impactful AI research with a strong commitment to safety and ethics
Full Job Description
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


The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$230,000-$270,000 USD

Logistics

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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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2019

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