Staff Software Engineer, Access Programs & Identity

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Software Engineer for the Access Programs team to build identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier model capabilities. You will work on monitoring, enforcement tooling, and dashboards to ensure safeguards and rapid response to misuse.

You will collaborate with policy, enforcement, product, and research to ensure access decisions are informed and consistently applied, with a focus on safety and societal impact.

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

Backend systems

Coding skills

Communication skills

Societal impact

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Software Engineer for the Access Programs team to build identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access to frontier model capabilities. You will work on monitoring, enforcement tooling, and dashboards to ensure safeguards and rapid response to misuse.

You will collaborate with policy, enforcement, product, and research to ensure access decisions are informed and consistently applied, with a focus on safety and societal impact.