Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Cyber Harms

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Other

Posted 2026-08-29

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About the role

As an Enforcement Lead, you will be responsible for managing and executing enforcement actions across our products and services, with a focus on detecting and mitigating attempts to misuse Anthropic's AI systems for malicious cyber operations. Your work will center on developing strategic enforcement frameworks for flagged activity related to cyberattacks, malware development, and offensive exploitation. Additionally, you will manage a team of Cyber Enforcement Analysts and contractors implementing this enforcement strategy.

Safety is core to our mission, and you'll help uphold policy enforcement so that our users can safely interact with and build on top of our products in a harmless, helpful, and honest way.

Important context for this role: In this position you may be exposed to and engage with explicit content spanning a range of topics, including those of a violent, technical, or psychologically disturbing nature. This role may require responding to escalations during weekends and holidays.

Key responsibilities

Manage a team of Cyber Enforcement Analysts and contractors, overseeing the vision of Cyber Enforcement strategy

Create strategies to detect and mitigate potential misuse of AI systems to facilitate cyberattacks, malware creation, exploitation tooling, and related harmful cyber operations

Collaborate with stakeholders regarding novel, ambiguous, or high-severity cases

Collaborate with the Safeguards Policy Design Team on policy gaps surfaced through real enforcement scenarios

Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to ensure tooling and measurement support enforcement operations.

Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, threat actor tactics, and the evolving cyber threat landscape, using these to inform enforcement decisions

Minimum qualifications

Experience as a people manager

Experience in cybersecurity, including knowledge of offensive techniques, exploit development, malware analysis, or vulnerability research

Experience performing content review, abuse investigations, or policy enforcement at volume

Proficiency in SQL and/or Python for data analysis and threat detection

Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to a diverse set of stakeholders, such as Product, Policy, Engineering, and Legal teams

Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review and enforcement

Preferred qualifications

Experience in trust & safety, abuse investigations, cybersecurity investigations, or threat intelligence in a technology or AI company

Experience with large language models and an understanding of how AI technology could be misused for cyber operations

Experience operating within abuse monitoring programs or enforcement review systems

Understanding of the challenges involved in implementing product policies at scale, including in the content moderation space

Experience working with government agencies, regulated environments, or information sharing communities

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:

$285,000—$330,000 USD

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