Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation

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.