Anthropic
Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · Staff+
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About the role
- We have multiple teams that are currently hiring within Safeguards.
- Team placement occurs after the interview process, taking into account your interests and experience alongside organizational needs.
- This flexible approach allows us to match talented engineers where they'll have the greatest impact and growth potential.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the internal review tools analysts use to investigate abuse - dashboards, case queues, and evidence viewers that make high-volume, high-stakes decisions fast and accurate.
- Build the interfaces where humans supervise agents: streaming output, interruption and approval flows, and clear provenance for every action an agent takes.
- Own the frontend architecture for tools handling sensitive data at scale - performance under large datasets, correctness under real-time updates, and access controls enforced end to end.
- Have experience building data-dense internal tools or operator interfaces, not just marketing or consumer surfaces
- We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern React
- 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position, not including internships or co-ops
- Have experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
- Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- You may be a good fit if you have:
- Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Compensation
- $405,000 - $485,000 USD
Company info
- We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
- At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts.
- We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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.
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