Staff+ Software Engineer (Account Creation)
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
- 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
- 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
### 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- An ability to work across the stack
- Proficiency in Python and Typescript
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience requir...