Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure

Core responsibilities:

• Develop the foundational systems which power Safeguards, including infrastructure for data storage and management, metric and evaluation systems, and tooling for human and agentic review.
• Ensure the day-to-day running of Safeguards systems and hold a high operational bar which serves both safety and customers while reducing the amount of human intervention and oversight required.
• Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale.

This role creates positive change by building systems to monitor AI models, prevent misuse, ensure user well-being, and uphold principles of safety, transparency, and oversight to make AI safe and beneficial for society.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience.
• 4-10+ years of experience in a software engineering position.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Ability to work across the stack.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space for collaboration.

Anthropic is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We post specific opportunities at Anthropic that we think may be high impact. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at Anthropic. You can read concerns about doing harm by working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.