Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure
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16 hours ago
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Job Summary
About Anthropic
Anthropics 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 systems.
About the role
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 detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models. You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety transparency and oversight.
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
You may be a good fit if you have:
- Bachelors 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
Strong candidates may also:
- 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
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles the range provided is the roles On Target Earnings (OTE) range meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
255000 - 325000 GBP
Logistics
Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:We do sponsor visas! However we arent able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Your safety matters to us.To protect yourself from potential scams remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you addresses. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money fees or banking information before your first day. If youre ever unsure about a communication dont click any linksvisit for confirmed position openings.
How were different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our long-term goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT-3 Circuit-Based Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates AI Usage:Learn aboutour policyfor using AI in our application process
Required Experience:
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Key Skills
- Jenkins
- Ruby
- Python
- Active Directory
- Cloud
- PowerShell
- Windows
- AWS
- Linux
- SAN
- Java
- Troubleshoot
- Backup
- Puppet
- hardware
About Company
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
