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Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$350k - $500kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineer to own the infrastructure behind Safeguards research at Anthropic, building tooling, data pipelines, and scalable ML workflows to enable fast research iteration from experiments to production-grade jobs in support of detection and mitigation of AI misuse.

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale the infrastructure and data pipelines behind Safeguards machine learning research
  • Own the training, evaluation, and scoring workflows researchers use, with a focus on cutting the time between an idea and a result
  • Design tooling and interfaces, including libraries and command line tools, that researchers can use directly without needing to understand the systems underneath
  • Build correctness and sanity checking into the stack, so results stay trustworthy as models and workloads evolve
  • Take the highest-value research workflows from experiments to reliable, production-grade jobs
  • Improve the throughput, cost, and reliability of large-scale inference and scoring workloads
  • Partner closely with researchers and engineers across Safeguards to understand their workflows, anticipate how their needs will change, and design for that ahead of time

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability, with proficiency in Python
  • Experience building and operating data-intensive or distributed systems in production
  • Experience building tooling or infrastructure that other engineers or researchers use as a dependency
  • Comfort working across the research-to-deployment pipeline, from exploratory experiments to production systems
  • Ability to debug performance and correctness problems across an unfamiliar stack
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, and a collaborative approach to technical decisions

Skills

Required:Python programmingDistributed systemsTooling and infrastructure for researchers

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space.
Last updated Jul 22, 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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