Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is hiring fullstack software engineers to build safety and oversight mechanisms for AI systems. You will work on the Safeguards team to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well‑being with emphasis on detection and control of disallowed use.

We offer multiple teams within Safeguards and pair you with projects that match your interests and experience, enabling impact and growth through interview-driven placement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Engineering or comparable experience.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern React; comfortable in Python for backend work.
• The ability to work across the stack.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build internal review tools for analysts, including dashboards and queues.
• Create interfaces for human supervision of agents with clear provenance and flows.
• Surface abuse patterns to research teams via visualizations and exploration tools.
• Own frontend architecture for tools handling sensitive data at scale with proper access controls.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Python

Cross-stack work

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering or comparable experience

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

Note: this job post is for Fullstack Software Engineers only. If you are a Backend Engineer, please see our Backend Software Engineer post here.

About the role

We are looking for fullstack 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.

We have multiple teams that are currently hiring within Safeguards. Team placement occurs after the interview process, taking into account your interests and experience alongside organizational needs. This flexible approach allows us to match talented engineers where they'll have the greatest impact and growth potential.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the internal review tools analysts use to investigate abuse — dashboards, case queues, and evidence viewers that make high-volume, high-stakes decisions fast and accurate.
• Build the interfaces where humans supervise agents: streaming output, interruption and approval flows, and clear provenance for every action an agent takes.
• Surface abuse patterns to our research teams through the visualizations and exploration tools that make emerging patterns legible.
• Own the frontend architecture for tools handling sensitive data at scale — performance under large datasets, correctness under real‑time updates, and access controls enforced end to end.

You may be a good fit if you have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in TypeScript and modern React; comfortable in Python for backend work
• The 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, not including internships or co‑ops
• Have experience building data-dense internal tools or operator interfaces, not just marketing or consumer surfaces
• 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

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, t