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Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals

Anthropic San Francisco, CA Hybrid staff full-time

Salary

$320,000-$485,000 USD per year

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Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society.

The Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals role focuses on building methods and infrastructure for evaluating model behavior and agentic systems.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluation research and methodology: Design experiments to improve evaluation quality, develop methods to generate representative test data, and validate grading accuracy.
  • Agentic investigation evals: Build and own the evaluation harness for an agentic investigation system, defining metrics, test cases, and grading approaches.
  • Datasets grounded in real harm: Construct high-quality eval datasets representing real-world misuse across harm areas.
  • Productionization and tooling: Ship successful research into evaluation, regression, and release pipelines, and build tooling for policy experts to author, run, and iterate on evaluations.

Minimum qualifications

  • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines
  • Experience working with LLMs and a working understanding of their capabilities and failure modes
  • Strong data analysis skills
  • Ability to move fluidly between research prototyping and production-quality code
  • Ability to translate ambiguous problems into concrete, testable experiments
  • Care deeply about AI safety and want your work to have real impact

Preferred qualifications

  • 8+ years of industry software engineering or ML engineering experience
  • Expertise in building or contributing to LLM or agent evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, or automated grading systems
  • Extensive experience in trust and safety, content moderation, or abuse detection systems
  • Experience in red teaming, adversarial testing, or jailbreak research on AI systems

Logistics

  • Annual Salary: $320,000-$485,000 USD

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • LLM or agent evaluation frameworks
  • trust and safety
  • content moderation
  • abuse detection systems
  • red teaming
  • adversarial testing
  • jailbreak research

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