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Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs

Anthropic· Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Software engineer on Anthropic's Access Programs team responsible for identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure to support trusted access to frontier AI capabilities, with monitoring and enforcement tooling and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
  • Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases
  • Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
  • Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
  • Partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so that access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied
  • Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply mitigations in real time, and carry affected accounts through to full remediation
  • Design and build the dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling that give the team and its partners clear visibility into the health and outcomes of our access programs
  • Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
  • Experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language, and experience building software with AI coding tools
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer

Skills

Required:Identity verification / KYCAccess control design

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Lovely office space
Last updated Sep 30, 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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