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Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, User Well-being

Support the design and deployment of mental health guardrails as a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst at Anthropic.

Location
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC
Compensation
$245k–$285k/yr
Level
mid
Type
full time · Hybrid

Posted by employer 2 months ago

First seen on Joblaze 2 months ago

Last verified on the company career page 4 days ago

Skills & Technologies

AI in the day-to-day

Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review, classification, or evaluation.

Requirements

Education
Bachelor's degree
Visa
Sponsorship available

Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience.

Benefits

Unlimited PTO Equity/Stock Options Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In the role of Safeguards Enforcement Analyst on the User Well-being team at Anthropic, the individual will focus on developing and implementing mental health interventions, including monitoring and evaluating their effectiveness. Key skills include experience in trust and safety, data analysis, and familiarity with generative AI products. This position is suited for candidates with a background in mental health or related fields, particularly those who can navigate complex policy and content moderation challenges. The team is dedicated to ensuring user safety while advancing AI technology.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed about 2 months ago — first seen on Joblaze August 5, 2026. Last confirmed on Anthropic's careers page October 4, 2026.
  • Salary band is above the typical range for comparable tech roles (median ~$127,000).
  • Starts above 94% of 124 comparable mid other roles in United States that list SQL we track (median $100,000 across 42 companies). See SQL salary trends
  • SQL appears in 7.4% of 3061 comparable mid other roles in United States; AI/ML appears in 3.4% of 3061 comparable mid other roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, User Well-being role remote?
It's hybrid — Anthropic expects some on-site time in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC.
What's the salary range?
Anthropic lists $245,000–$285,000 for this role.
Where is the role based?
Anthropic is hiring for this position in San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Washington, DC.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, SQL.
Does Anthropic sponsor work visas for this role?
Yes — the posting indicates visa sponsorship is available for the right candidate.
What seniority level is this role?
Anthropic targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, User Well-being role at Anthropic.

From the original posting

About Anthropic

About the role

As a Safeguards Analyst on the User Well-being team, you will be focused on supporting the design and deployment of mental health guardrails – iterating on detection systems, managing review queues, evaluating new interventions, and monitoring existing ones. Interventions range from steering how Claude responds in the conversation itself to in-product features that connect users to other resources. This work involves translating expert clinical guidance, internal data analyses, and legal or engineering constraints into concrete changes to how we detect, review, and respond.

This team covers a broad set of interconnected harms including suicide, self-harm, disordered eating, AI sycophancy, and emotional dependence on AI. This position may expand into broader areas of user well-being enforcement over time. Safety is core to our mission, and you'll help shape 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 sexual, violent, or psychologically disturbing nature.

Key responsibilities

  • Support the design and execution of interventions, defining key metrics, and curating evaluation datasets

  • Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to build, tune, and validate detection models for automated intervention systems, including threshold-setting and precision and recall tradeoffs

  • Monitor how interventions and detection systems perform over time

  • Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements

  • Support the development of in-product features that connect users to crisis resources, working with Product, Legal, and external partners on referral pathways and user-facing content

  • Support the Safeguards Policy Design team by providing detailed feedback on policy gaps based on real scenarios

  • Keep up to date with emerging AI policy and external research on AI's relationship to mental health, and use these to inform our decision-making and workflows

Minimum qualifications

  • Experience in trust & safety, product policy, content moderation, or a related field, with direct exposure to mental health, suicide and self-harm, or related well-being harm areas

  • Experience designing or running experiments, evaluations, or measurement studies to determine whether an intervention worked

  • Experience translating policy definitions into measurable form — the rubrics, review guidelines, or classification criteria, whether applied by human reviewers or automated systems

  • Experience managing or coordinating content review operations, including quality assurance and workflow management

  • Proficiency in SQL and/or other data analysis tools to measure intervention efficacy, monitor workflow health, and surface policy gaps

  • Experience working with generative AI products, including writing effective prompts for content review, classification, or evaluation

  • Experience turning open questions and data into concise and insightful analysis

  • Experience identifying emerging risks and communicating findings to cross-functional stakeholders

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

  • Sound judgment in ambiguous, high-consequence cases, and comfort making a call and escalating appropriately when the available signal is incomplete

Preferred qualifications

  • Subject matter expertise in mental health, whether developed in academia, clinical practice, crisis intervention, trust & safety, or other related settings

  • Experience building or evaluating LLM-based classification systems

  • Experience using agentic tools (e.g. Claude Code) to scale analysis or automate recurring work

  • Experience working within crisis support

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Annual Salary:
$245,000—$285,000 USD

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