Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI syst...

We are looking for software engineers to help build the foundational pieces for safety, oversight and intervention mechanisms of our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. This role will focus on building systems to dete...

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

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable professional experience
Proficiency in Python
Ability to work across the stack
Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
7+ years of experience in a software engineering position
Have experience building trust and safety, anti-spam, fraud or abuse detection and mitigation mechanisms and interventions for AI/ML systems
Have experience building metrics and measurement systems or data and privacy management systems
Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling
Be proficient in TypeScript or Rust
Have experience with Claude Code or similar agentic coding tools