Access & Identity Platform Engineer

Anthropic Limited; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a software engineer to join the Access Programs team, building identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier AI capabilities. You will work on enforcing safeguards while enabling legitimate use across diverse customer segments.

The role involves designing scalable backend systems, integrating with identity vendors, and collaborating with policy, enforcement, product, research, and go-to-market teams to ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Eng or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose language and AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
• Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases
• Build infrastructure to configure safety systems and detection thresholds on a per-customer basis for trusted access programs
• Develop monitoring to detect misuse of expanded access, and tooling that enables enforcement teams to act on it
• Partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so that access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied
• Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply mitigations in real time, and carry affected accounts through to full remediation
• Design and build the dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling that give the team and its partners clear visibility into the health and outcomes of our access programs
• Integrate with third-party identity verification and data enrichment vendors

Skills

Backend systems

KYC/KYB

Access control design

Monitoring tooling

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Identity verification systems

Data enrichment vendors

Job description

Anthropic Limited is seeking a software engineer to join the Access Programs team, building identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier AI capabilities. You will work on enforcing safeguards while enabling legitimate use across diverse customer segments.

The role involves designing scalable backend systems, integrating with identity vendors, and collaborating with policy, enforcement, product, research, and go-to-market teams to ensure