Enforcement Analyst, Agentic Alignment

As an Enforcement Analyst focused on Agentic Alignment, you will play a crucial role in identifying and investigating harmful and unexpected behavior by models, and make enforcement decisions accordingly. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams, within and outside of Safeguards, including Policy, Threat Intel, Engineering, Research, and Transparency. There is also an on-call responsibility across the Policy and Enforcement teams. 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.

Responsibilities

Review and investigate potential instances of Agentic Misalignment, working from transcripts, tool-use traces, and code; Triage cases by severity and urgency and share through the appropriate channels; Help operationalize review pipelines for agentic cases, translating leads from detection outputs and investigations into structured review workflows that scale; Make enforcement decisions under the Usage Policy, applying it consistently to novel agentic scenarios and across surfaces, and documenting the reasoning behind each decision; Assess cyber-related agentic activity, such as scanning, exploitation attempts, credential misuse or malicious code to determine its real-world harm potential; Write clear, well-evidenced case write-ups for audiences ranging from enforcement peers to senior leadership; Identify patterns and trends across cases, and close the loop between enforcement outcomes and upstream improvements by feeding findings back to policy, detection and research teams; Maintain rigorous documentation of enforcement decisions, review logic and precedents to build institutional knowledge; Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Research, Engineering and Policy partners so that detection coverage keeps pace with how agentic misuse and misaligned behavior evolve; Use AI systems, including Claude, to accelerate your own investigations; Contribute to regular reports on agentic harm trends and enforcement outcomes

Requirements

Can read and understand code (for example Python, JavaScript or shell scripts) well enough to follow what happened and why it matters; Have a background in security, cyber threat intelligence, or a similar technical field that lets you understand how cyber harm happens and judge its severity; Have experience in trust and safety, enforcement, investigations or a related field, translating ambiguous policy questions and facts into defensible enforcement decisions and clear written findings; Have conducted structured investigations, building a case from first signal to final finding and knowing when the evidence is strong enough to act on; Have supported or contributed to formal enforcement actions, including case documentation, evidence packaging and escalation coordination; Write clearly and concisely, and can present complex findings to stakeholders across Legal, Policy and Engineering, including non-technical audiences; Have sound judgment about when a case needs escalation, and the resilience to work with difficult content; 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

Nice to have

Have demonstrated use of AI systems to accelerate your own work; Are comfortable working with large volumes of data, from long transcripts, logs and traces to complex, multi-table datasets; Are curious about how AI agents behave, and enjoy investigating behavior no one has categorized before; Have familiarity with AI safety and alignment, and current debates about the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits; Optional equity donation matching; Generous vacation and parental leave; Flexible working hours; Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues; Visa sponsorship available