Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY
About this role
**About Anthropic** Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems—safe and beneficial for users and society. > **Note:** This job post is for **Fullstack Software Engineers** only. If you’re a **Backend Engineer**, please see the Backend Software Engineer posting. --- **About the role** Join the **Safeguards** team to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for Anthropic’s AI systems. You’ll work to **monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being** by building systems that detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use. You’ll uphold principles of **safety, transparency, and oversight**, while enforcing **terms of service** and **acceptable use policies**. --- **Responsibilities** - Design and build internal review tools analysts use to investigate abuse (dashboards, case queues, evidence viewers) for fast, accurate, high-volume decisions. - Build interfaces where humans supervise agents (streaming output, interruption + approval flows, and clear provenance for every agent action). - Surface abuse patterns to research teams via visualizations and exploration tools. - Own frontend architecture for tools handling sensitive data at scale (performance on large datasets, correctness with real-time updates, and end-to-end access controls). --- **You may be a good fit if you have** - A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering (or comparable experience) - Proficiency in **TypeScript** and modern **React**; comfortable in **Python** for backend work - 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 (excluding internships/co-ops) - Experience building data-dense internal tools or operator interfaces (not just marketing/consumer) - Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection/mitigation - Experience building trust & safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems - Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs - Experience partnering closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling --- **Compensation (Annual Salary)** - **$405,000 — $485,000 USD** --- **Logistics** - **Minimum education:** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education/training/experience - **Required field of study:** Relevant to the role (via coursework, training, or professional experience) - **Minimum years of experience:** Correlates with internal job level - **Location-based hybrid policy:** Expect to be in an office at least **25% of the time** (some roles may require more) - **Visa sponsorship:** Yes—Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to sponsor visas when possible (with support from an immigration lawyer) --- **How we’re different** Anthropic focuses on high-impact AI research as “big science,” working as a cohesive team on a few large-scale efforts. Communication and collaboration are highly valued. --- **Come work with us!** Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a collaborative office environment. **Candidate AI Usage:** Learn about Anthropic’s policy for using AI in the application process.
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