Software Engineer, Safeguards Intelligence

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards Intelligence team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. This role will focus on building systems to deeply understand how users are using our models in novel, harmful ways in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and responsible oversight.

Responsibilities:

• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our users and potentially take automated enforcement actions


• Build robust and reliable internal tools for rich data understanding and exploration


• Work closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends, and with our threat investigators to uplevel their ability to conduct thorough investigations


• Build integrations with third-party data-enrichment vendors


• Create infrastructure to power large scale, unsupervised learning techniques to detect novel patterns of abuse.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 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 - and work closely with - non-technical stakeholders

Strong candidates may also:

• 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 experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs


• Have worked closely with threat intelligence or investigative teams to build custom internal tooling

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:

$300,000 - $405,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.