Safeguards Enforcement Analyst, Age-Appropriate Design

Key Responsibilities

• Design and architect automated enforcement systems and review workflows that scale effectively while maintaining high accuracy.
• Partner with Engineering and Data Science teams to optimize detection models for policy violations and automated enforcement systems.
• Review flagged content to drive enforcement and policy improvements.
• Enforce usage policies with a focus on detecting and mitigating potential harmful use of AI systems.
• Work with Legal, Public Policy, and Privacy stakeholders to keep our age assurance approach proportionate, privacy-preserving, and responsive to an evolving regulatory landscape.
• Support the Safeguards policy design team by providing detailed feedback on policy gaps based on real enforcement scenarios.
• Keep up to date with emerging AI policy enforcement best practices, and use these to inform our decision-making and workflows.
• Responsible for Anthropic's layered age assurance approach - self-declaration, behavioral signals, verification, and ban appeals - to keep our first-party consumer products safe.
• Adjacent user well-being enforcement where age is a key factor in how policy is applied such as sexual content and illicit substances.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in trust and safety, online child safety, age assurance, privacy, product policy, or a related field.
• Subject matter expertise in one or more of: age assurance or age verification systems, age-appropriate design, child online safety, privacy-preserving verification methods, or content classification for young people.
• Experience driving cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Legal, and Policy partners — especially where safety, privacy, and usability tradeoffs need to be navigated together.
• Experience navigating evolving regulatory landscapes and enforcement best practices with regards to age assurance (including frameworks like the UK AADC, COPPA, and the DSA), CSAM/CSEM, NCII, and digital well-being.
• A thoughtful perspective on the privacy/safety tradeoffs inherent in age verification — including when less invasive approaches are the right call.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience producing clear briefs and recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort using data (SQL or similar tools) to measure what's working and inform decisions.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to collaborate with team members while navigating rapidly evolving priorities and workstreams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating age-gating flows, age estimation signals, underage account detection, or appeals workflows.
• Experience advising or partnering with third-party platforms on deploying safely to younger users.
• Experience working with or evaluating third-party age verification providers.
• A deep interest in AI safety and responsible technology development.
• Experience writing effective prompts for generative AI systems in a content review or enforcement context.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $245,000—$285,000 USD

Education and Experience

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.