Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. This role focuses on building systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models, enforcing terms of service and acceptable use policies.

• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review.
• Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure.
• Surface abuse patterns to research teams to harden models at the training stage.
• Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Ability to work across the stack.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong candidates may also have 8+ years of software engineering experience, experience with integrity/spam/fraud/abuse detection, trust and safety mechanisms for AI/ML systems, prompt engineering and adversarial inputs, and experience building custom internal tooling with operational teams.

Annual Salary: $320,000—$485,000 USD. Anthropic offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office space.

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or 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.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.