Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Review Tooling

Job Overview

We're seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for our Safeguards Review Tooling team at Anthropic. As one of the first engineers on this new team, you'll develop and maintain the tools that humans and AI use to investigate potential harms and take enforcement actions across Anthropic's products and third-party cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Build investigation, review, and enforcement tooling for first-party and third-party platform surfaces.
• Develop a platform layer of reusable APIs, data storage, and backend services for quick and safe review workflows.
• Scale review through automation, enabling reviewers to use Claude effectively and building toward Claude-assisted and Claude-driven review workflows.
• Collaborate with policy, operations, legal, privacy, and data science stakeholders to translate enforcement and investigation needs into reliable systems.
• Implement guardrails for sensitive internal tools, including granular permissions, audit trails, and data-access controls.
• Instrument tools with metrics on queue health, reviewer throughput, and decision quality.

Requirements

• Technical background in full-stack or platform engineering.
• Experience shipping internal tools or platforms with demanding operational users.
• Cross-functional experience with non-engineering partners.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Care about the societal impacts of AI.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry software engineering experience.
• Experience building trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse-prevention tooling.
• Experience designing systems under strict privacy, compliance, or data governance constraints.
• Experience integrating LLMs or agentic systems into operational workflows.
• Experience building developer platforms or extensible tooling frameworks.
• Experience supporting enforcement or moderation systems across multiple product surfaces.

Logistics

• Annual Salary: $320,000 - $485,000 USD
• Location-based hybrid policy: 25% office time
• Visa sponsorship available

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space