Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure
Anthropic · London, UK
CHECKED 4H AGO
Frontier labonsitestaff$430k–$523k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build foundational systems powering safety, oversight and intervention for AI.
- Monitor models to detect unwanted behaviors and prevent disallowed use at scale.
- Build robust multi-layered defenses improving safety mechanisms in real time.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A mission-driven infrastructure engineer who cares deeply about AI safety and enjoys building reliable, large-scale systems for oversight and misuse prevention in close collaboration with others.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- Proficiency in Python
- Ability to work across the stack
- Strong communication skills explaining complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- Experience building trust and safety or abuse detection for AI/ML systems
- remote policy
- Hybrid - expected in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available with reasonable effort if offer made, but not guaranteed for every role
- hiring process
- No deadline; applications reviewed on a rolling basis
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