# Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $320,000-$485,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, ensuring they are safe and beneficial for users and society. We are seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer to join our team.

## Responsibilities:

- Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from 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 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.

## Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.

- Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.

- Ability to work across the stack.

- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

## Preferred Qualifications:

- 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position.

- Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation.

- Experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems.

- Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs.

- Experience working closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling.

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000-$485,000 USD.

## Logistics:

- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or 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: Correlates with internal job level requirements for the position.

- Location-based hybrid policy: Expect to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to obtain one for successful candidates.

## Benefits:

- Competitive compensation and benefits.

- Optional equity donation matching.

- Generous vacation and parental leave.

- Flexible working hours.

- Lovely office space.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TypeScript
- Software Engineering
- Computer Science

### Nice to have
- integrity
- spam
- fraud
- abuse detection
- AI/ML systems
- prompt engineering
- jailbreak attacks

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