Software Engineer, Account Abuse (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineer, Account Abuse (AI): Building systems that gather and analyze signals at scale to ensure Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly and to minimize resources available to bad actors. Focus on identifying abuse patterns, uncovering emerging attack vectors, and informing both immediate enforcement actions and longer-term systemic defenses.

Location: Must be in one of Anthropic offices at least 25% of the time.

Salary: $320,000 - $405,000 USD

Company

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What you will do

• Think and respond quickly in a rapidly-changing greenfield environment.
• Integrate with third-party data-enrichment vendors.
• Create monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX.
• Work closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends.
• Lead root cause analyses and deep-dive investigations into account activity to identify abuse patterns.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience.
• 3-10+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and data analysis tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• Have experience building trust and safety mechanisms for and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud-detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale.
• Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

Culture & 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.

Hiring process

• Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses.
• Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day.