Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation (AI Safety)

Location: San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA. Hybrid work is required, with staff expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $320,000–$485,000 USD

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behavior from API partners and support automated enforcement actions.
• Build dashboards that surface potential abuse for analyst review.
• Design abuse detection mechanisms and supporting infrastructure.
• Identify abuse patterns and share them with research teams to improve model training.
• Build reliable, multi-layered safety defenses that improve in real time and operate at scale.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent education and 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.
• Ability to work from and regularly attend an Anthropic office in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation.
• Experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms for AI/ML systems.
• Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and adversarial inputs.
• Experience partnering with operational teams to build custom internal tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and office-based collaboration.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and optional equity donation matching.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with immigration counsel provided for supported cases.