Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

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 systems.

🏢 About Anthropic

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 systems.

🎯 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.

✅ Key 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

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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

⭐ Desirable Experience

• 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

🎁 Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s 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: £325,000 — £395,000 GBP

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.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't 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.