Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
About this role
## About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. ## About the role We’re looking for software engineers to build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. On the Safeguards team, you’ll help monitor models, prevent misuse, and support user well-being by building systems that detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use. You’ll apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies. ## Responsibilities - Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface results in internal dashboards for analyst review - Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure - Surface abuse patterns to research teams to harden models at the training stage - Build robust, reliable, multi-layered defenses for real-time safety improvements that work at scale ## You may be a good fit if you have - A 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 experience in a software engineering position - Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation - Experience building trust & safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems - Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs - Experience working closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling ## Compensation - **Annual Salary:** **$320,000 — $485,000 USD** ## Logistics - **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience - **Required field of study:** Field relevant to the role (via coursework, training, or professional experience) - **Minimum years of experience:** Correlates with internal job level requirements - **Location-based hybrid policy:** Expect to be in one of our offices at least **25%** of the time (some roles may require more) - **Visa sponsorship:** We sponsor visas, but not for every role/candidate. If you receive an offer, we’ll make reasonable efforts to support your visa process. ## Safety note (scams) Anthropic recruiters only contact candidates from **@anthropic.com** (and in some cases vetted recruiting agencies). Legitimate recruiters will never ask for money/fees/banking information before your first day. ## How we’re different We believe high-impact AI research is “big science.” We work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale efforts and value communication and collaboration. ## Come work with us Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, offering competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment. *Guidance on Candidates’ AI Usage:* Learn about our policy for using AI in the application process.
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