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# software engineer

- **Company:** Anthropic's Mission
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $320,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Monitoring of Systems, Software Engineering, TypeScript, Prompt Engineering, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-account-creation-anthropic-3-10175905

## About the Role

* A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
 * Proficiency in Python and Typescript
 * An ability to work across the stack
 * Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Strong candidates may also:

 * 8+ years of experience in a software engineering position
 * Have experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
 * Have experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems
 * Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
 * Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling, Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

## Description

We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being. This role will focus on building systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models. You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies., * Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review

 * Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure
 * Surface abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage
 * Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale


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