We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for 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 while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies.
Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards at Anthropic
Hybrid - San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY
More jobs at AnthropicSalary
USD 320,000 - 485,000
Requirements
Skills
- 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
- 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position
- Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
- Experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems
- Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
- Experience building custom internal tooling with operational teams
Responsibilities
- Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
- Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure
- Surface abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage
- Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale
Technologies
PythonTypescript
See if your resume is ready for this job
See how our AI can optimize your resume and improve your chances for this role.