Staff+ Software Engineer (Access Programs)
Company: Anthropic
Location: San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Salary: $320k - $485k per year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-10-10
About this role
- As Claude’s capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people
- The Access Programs team builds the systems that verify who our customers are, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused
- As a software engineer on this team, you will build the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins our trusted access programs, along with the monitoring and enforcement tooling that keeps them safe
- This work sits at the center of how Anthropic deploys frontier capabilities responsibly, balancing broad access with rigorous safeguards
- Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
- Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases
- Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
- Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
- Partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so that access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied
- Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply mitigations in real time, and carry affected accounts through to full remediation
- Design and build the dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling that give the team and its partners clear visibility into the health and outcomes of our access programs
- Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors
### 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 ...