Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 4H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$320k–$485k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build agentic safety systems that help trust teams investigate abuse at model speed.
- Own interventions between detection models and users across API and products.
- Deploy agent fleets across clouds to surface cyberattacks and misuse patterns.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A mission-driven builder excited by AI safety who thrives across the stack and partners well with non-technical stakeholders. You care about oversight, transparency, and stopping real-world misuse at scale.
Requirements
- 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
- remote policy
- Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- We do sponsor visas, but unable to successfully sponsor for every role and candidate
- hiring process
- Applications reviewed on rolling basis; team placement after interviews based on interests and needs
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google