Description
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.
About the role
We are seeking a Software Engineer, Safeguards to join our team. As a Software Engineer, Safeguards, you will be responsible for developing monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviours from our API partners and potentially taking automated enforcement actions. You will also be responsible for building abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure, as well as surfacing abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage.
Responsibilities:
- Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviours from our 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 our 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
You may be a good fit if you:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- 5-10+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
- 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
Strong candidates may also:
- Have experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems
- Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
- Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling
Logistics
- Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. 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. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
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