Safeguards Enforcement Analyst

Safeguards Enforcement Analyst

Location: Oregon (Remote)

Role Overview

This organization is seeking a Safeguards Enforcement Analyst focused on Violence and Extremism. The successful candidate will build and execute operational workflows to assess model behavior, drive enforcement decisions, and develop evaluations across a technically demanding range of policy areas. The primary focus of the work involves detecting and mitigating attempts to misuse artificial intelligence systems to facilitate real-world harm, including weapons, dangerous technology, critical infrastructure attacks, violent extremism, and threats of violence. In this position, analysts must be prepared to engage with explicit, graphic, and psychologically challenging material spanning violent extremist ideologies, recruitment, and funding tactics.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess model behavior and execute operational workflows to drive enforcement decisions in the trust and safety tools flow.

• Manage and work against a backlog of tickets requiring subject matter expertise in violent extremist ideologies, recruitment, and funding tactics.

• Conduct labeling exercises and revise rubrics to ensure precise model evaluation and alignment.

• Research and analyze attempts at model uplift from foreign terrorist organizations, extremist groups, and aligned individuals.

• Handle time-sensitive escalations related to imminent risk, threat intelligence, and internal global security incidents.

• Build and establish a violence enforcement vertical focused on violent extremism nexuses and credible threats.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, National Security, Political Science, Computer Science, or a related field of study.

• Experience: Prior trust and safety experience in the counter-extremism or violent extremism space within the technology sector, or an equivalent background in specialized research institutions.

• Technical

Skills

• Proven ability to develop evaluations for artificial intelligence systems, design operational policy workflows, and handle graphic or psychologically challenging content in a professional, resilient manner.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the threat landscape surrounding artificial intelligence misuse and safety vulnerability research.

• Strong analytical capability to identify emerging recruitment and funding tactics utilized by extremist groups online.

• Company Overview & Culture

• This organization is dedicated to building reliable, beneficial, and controllable artificial intelligence systems. The team prioritizes safety, collaborative research, and proactive policy enforcement to mitigate real-world harms. Employees work in a high-impact environment alongside leading experts to shape the future of technology responsibly.

• Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

• Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a Health Savings Account (HSA), an Employee Assistance Program with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.