# Safeguards Policy Analyst, Cyber Harms

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Washington, DC
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $190k – $285k/yr
**Skills:** Cybersecurity Policy, Usage Policies, Trust And Safety, Nist Csf, Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Reports, Threat Assessments, Policy Analysis, Access Control, Security Classifiers, Model Cards, Incident Notification
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> The analyst develops and evaluates cyber product policies, enforcement guidance, controlled-access frameworks, and launch-review inputs for AI systems. The role requires strong policy writing, cybersecurity or platform-enforcement familiarity, technical security literacy, and cross-functional communication.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain cyber product policy artifacts, including usage-policy language, help-center and enforcement guidance, and launch policy notes.
- Analyze the constitution and cyber-related usage policies to verify that enforcement decisions and safeguards align with them; maintain a gap log and propose text fixes.
- Collaborate with threat intelligence, enforcement, engineering, and policy teams to ensure cyber safety standards are met.
- Review enforcement decisions regularly, identify policy drift, and report findings.
- Coordinate cyber policy inputs for model releases, launch reviews, model cards, regulatory requirements, and regulator pre-briefs.
- Support access-requirements policy and consolidation of the controlled-access framework.
- Keep cyber policy commitments current with industry and regulatory standards and map them to technical safeguards.
- Draft reporting inputs for partners and regulators.
- Translate technical evaluation and safeguard work into policy positions and internal guidance.
- Engage with technical teams on probes, classifiers, and trusted-access programs.

## Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to write clear policy analysis in a professional or academic setting.
- Familiarity with AI platform usage-policy enforcement, cybersecurity policy, standards, or regulatory frameworks such as usage policies/AUPs, trust and safety enforcement, NIST CSF, or CVD.
- Ability to interpret technical security material, including vulnerability reports and threat assessments.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and written communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

## Nice-to-haves
- Cybersecurity policy experience, including coordinated vulnerability disclosure.
- Exposure to government information-sharing and incident-notification frameworks.
- Experience engaging with government agencies, regulators, or standards bodies on cybersecurity or AI matters.
- Experience with legal, technical, or policy aspects of vulnerabilities and disclosure.
- Experience supporting model-release or product-launch reviews.
- Familiarity with trust-and-safety or platform product-policy work, including usage policies, enforcement appeals, and policy communications.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary: **$190,000–$285,000 USD**.
- Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office collaboration space.
- Hybrid policy requiring staff to work from an office at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more.

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