Safeguards Enforcement Lead, Cyber Harms

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) | Washington, DC; San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Safeguards (Trust & Safety) · listed August 29, 2026

The shape of it

Seniority
Senior
Where
Hybrid
Stated pay
$285,000 – $330,000 USD
Requirements listed
6
Length
1,303 words

In the posting’s own words

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.

What it asks for · 6

  • 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

Also a plus

  • 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

What the job covers

  • 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

Tools and skills named

Languages
  • Python2×
  • SQL2×
Models & research
  • LLM2×

Words the posting leans on

  • enforcement24×
  • experience18×
  • cyber12×
  • policy11×
  • product8×
  • threat8×
  • content7×
  • cyber enforcement5×
  • cyber operations5×
  • policy enforcement5×
  • systems5×
  • abuse investigations4×
  • analysis4×
  • collaborate4×
  • content review4×
  • cybersecurity4×

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