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Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards

Anthropic· Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 11mo ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on building safety, oversight, and abuse-detection systems for Anthropic's AI models. Responsibilities include monitoring models, preventing misuse, surfacing abuse patterns to analysts and research teams, and developing multi-layered defenses at scale.

Responsibilities

  • 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 our 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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable professional experience
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, etc.
  • Ability to work across the stack
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Required:ProgrammingCross-stack developmentCommunication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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