[Pipeline] Software Engineer, Safeguards Labs

About the 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python and comfort working with large datasets.
• A track record of designing, building, and operating production backend systems or data pipelines.
• Experience taking software from prototype to production, including testing, monitoring, and reliability work.
• Working familiarity with how large language models operate, even if LLMs aren't your primary background.
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to directly reduce real-world harm.
• At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience deploying ML systems or classifiers into production.
• Background in trust and safety, integrity, fraud detection, threat intelligence, or adversarial ML.
• Experience building developer-facing tooling or platforms that accelerate research workflows.
• Familiarity with evaluation methodologies for language models.
• Experience with agentic environments.
• A history of partnering with researchers and successfully transferring prototypes into production.
• 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:
• $405,000 - $485,000 USD
• Logistics
• Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• 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
• Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship: 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.

Benefits

Additional Information

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.

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