Interpretability Engineer for AI Safety & Research

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 315,000 - 560,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is looking for a skilled software engineer to join their Interpretability team in San Francisco. The role involves building and maintaining infrastructure for interpretability research while ensuring reliability and efficiency. Candidates should have over 5 years of software development experience and be proficient in at least one programming language. A curiosity about AI safety and the societal impacts of technology is essential. Salary ranges from $315,000 to $560,000, with some remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of experience building software.
• Highly proficient in at least one programming language.
• Extremely curious about unfamiliar domains and able to learn quickly.
• Strong ability to prioritize impactful work amidst ambiguity.
• Interest in AI safety and interpretability research.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain specialized inference and training infrastructure.
• Resolve scaling and efficiency bottlenecks through optimization.
• Design tools and abstractions for rapid research experiments.
• Assist in production safety audits with real deadlines.
• Work across the stack on model internals and research tooling.

Skills

Proficient in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Rust, Go, Java)

Experience in building software (5-10+ years)

Curiosity about unfamiliar domains

Ability to prioritize impactful work

Experience with interpretability research

Tools

PyTorch

CUDA

JAX

TPUs

Job description

Anthropic is looking for a skilled software engineer to join their Interpretability team in San Francisco. The role involves building and maintaining infrastructure for interpretability research while ensuring reliability and efficiency. Candidates should have over 5 years of software development experience and be proficient in at least one programming language. A curiosity about AI safety and the societal impacts of technology is essential. Salary ranges from $315,000 to $560,000, with some remote flexibility.