Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer (AI Safeguards)

Location: San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY; hybrid policy requires staff to work from one of the offices at least 25% of the time.

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and build internal review tools, including dashboards, case queues, and evidence viewers for abuse investigations.
• Build interfaces for human supervision of AI agents, including streaming output, interruption, approval flows, and action provenance.
• Create visualizations and exploration tools that surface abuse patterns for research teams.
• Own frontend architecture for sensitive, data-intensive tools with strong performance, real-time correctness, and end-to-end access controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern React, with backend experience in Python.
• Ability to work across the full stack.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, excluding internships and co-ops.
• Experience building data-dense internal tools or operator interfaces.
• Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, abuse detection, trust and safety systems, or AI/ML interventions.
• Experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, adversarial inputs, or operational tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across research, engineering, policy, and business functions.
• Flexible working hours and a collaborative office environment.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Competitive compensation and optional equity donation matching.
• Frequent research discussions focused on high-impact AI safety work.

Hiring process

• Team placement takes place after the interview process based on candidate interests, experience, and organizational needs.
• Candidates should follow Anthropic’s policy regarding AI use during the application process.