Software Engineer (Safeguards Labs)

About this role

• Safeguards Labs is a new team operating at the intersection of research and engineering, chartered to investigate novel safety methods that protect Claude and the people who use it. We prototype new approaches to safe models, usage safeguards, and production safety, pressure-testing ideas before they graduate into production systems run by our partner Safeguards teams
• We’re hiring software engineers to partner with our research engineers and turn promising prototypes into reliable, production-grade safeguards. The team is small, so each engineer has substantial latitude over what they work on and high leverage on the team’s direction
• Take research prototypes and harden them into production services that integrate with Anthropic’s real-time safeguards path
• Build data and evaluation infrastructure that lets the team iterate on prototypes quickly and measure whether safeguards actually work, including in agentic settings
• Own deployment, monitoring, and reliability for systems Labs ships
• Build internal tooling that helps investigators surface and act on abuse patterns
• Collaborate with research engineers on scoping and contribute to decisions about which prototypes are ready to graduate

### Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
• 22 weeks of paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off and absence policies
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Optional equity donation matching at a 1:1 ratio, up to 25% of your equity grant
• Retirement plans with competitive matching
• Life and income protection plans
• $500/month flexible wellness and time saver stipend
• Commuter benefits
• Annual education stipend
• Home office stipends
• Relocation support for those moving for Anthropic
• Daily meals and snacks in the office- Experience taking software from prototype to production, including testing, monitorin...