Senior AI Safeguards Engineer — Distributed Systems

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Equity

Wellness stipend

Relocation support

Commuter benefits

Education stipend

Home office stipend

Meals in office

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Safeguards team in San Francisco. You will build distributed, scalable systems that detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models, while interfacing with analysts through internal dashboards.

You will lead multi-month infrastructure projects, deploy monitoring across clouds, and harden sandboxed runtimes for AI agents, ensuring data residency, auditability, and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure and provider-agnostic designs.
• Proficiency in Python and distributed systems.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with sandboxing and isolation technologies or systems language like Rust.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in software engineering with production LLm-based agents experience.
• Experience with regulated or sensitive data handling and data residency.

Responsibilities

• Scope and lead multi-month infrastructure projects from design to production.
• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and surface in dashboards.
• Deploy monitoring across cloud environments with consistent pipelines and observability.
• Design sandboxed runtime for AI agents with strict isolation and audit logging.
• Manage cost and capacity for large volumes of agent work and meet SLOs.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, security, privacy, and legal teams.

Skills

Python

Distributed Systems

Infrastructure as Code

Strong communication

Sandboxing / isolation tech

Rust

Cloud experience

LLM-based agents in production

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Containers

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an experienced software engineer to join the Safeguards team in San Francisco. You will build distributed, scalable systems that detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models, while interfacing with analysts through internal dashboards.

You will lead multi-month infrastructure projects, deploy monitoring across clouds, and harden sandboxed runtimes for AI agents, ensuring data residency, auditability, and cost efficiency.