ML/Research 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: $350,000–$500,000 USD

Company

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

What you will do

• Develop classifiers, synthetic data pipelines, and automated evaluation methods to detect misuse and anomalous behavior at scale.
• Build monitoring systems for harms spanning multiple exchanges, including coordinated cyber attacks and influence operations.
• Aggregate and analyze signals across contexts to identify sophisticated misuse patterns.
• Evaluate and improve the safety of agentic products by developing threat models, testing environments, and mitigations for prompt injection attacks.
• Conduct research in automated red-teaming, adversarial robustness, and methods for finding and preventing misuse.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in ML engineering, research engineering, or applied research in academia or industry.
• Proficiency in Python and experience building machine learning systems.
• Ability to work across the research-to-deployment pipeline, from exploratory experiments to production systems.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or professional experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Experience with language modeling and transformers.
• Experience building classifiers, anomaly detection systems, or behavioral ML systems.
• Background in adversarial machine learning, red-teaming, interpretability, probes, or reinforcement learning.
• Experience with high-performance, large-scale ML systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative research environment focused on large-scale AI safety efforts.
• Frequent research discussions and cross-functional collaboration with researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders.
• Visa sponsorship is available, with reasonable efforts and immigration lawyer support for successful candidates.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours.
• Office-based collaboration in San Francisco or New York under the hybrid policy.