Identity & Access Platform Engineer

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Office space in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a software engineer for the Access Programs team. You will build identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier capabilities while implementing safeguards and monitoring.

You will work with policy, enforcement, product, and research to ensure decisions are informed and consistently applied. You will design scalable auth and KYC/KYB workflows, integrate vendors, and develop real-time detection and remediation tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
• Experience building and operating backend systems in production.
• Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language, and experience building software with AI coding tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer.

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

General-purpose programming

AI coding tools

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

Identity verification platforms

Access control systems

Job description

Anthropic seeks a software engineer for the Access Programs team. You will build identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier capabilities while implementing safeguards and monitoring.

You will work with policy, enforcement, product, and research to ensure decisions are informed and consistently applied. You will design scalable auth and KYC/KYB workflows, integrate vendors, and develop real-time detection and remediation tooling.