Staff Software Engineer Safeguards

AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.

Series F+Recently funded51 current maintainers45 active leads15 new active leads30 lead step-downs10 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About Anthropic

Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.

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About the Role

You will build monitoring, abuse-detection, and enforcement systems for AI products. You will surface abuse patterns for model hardening, create analyst dashboards, and develop reliable multilayered safety defenses that operate at scale across product and API surfaces.

Requirements

  • Use Python and TypeScript
  • Work across the stack
  • Explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behavior and support automated enforcement
  • Build internal dashboards for analyst review
  • Build abuse-detection mechanisms and infrastructure
  • Surface abuse patterns to research teams for model hardening
  • Build reliable multilayered safety defenses that operate at scale

Benefits

  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave
  • Flexible working hours