Staff Software Engineer — AI Safety & Distributed Systems

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well‑being, focusing on distributed, scalable infrastructure to detect unwanted behaviors and enforce policy.

Responsibilities include leading multi‑month projects, deploying monitoring across clouds, designing sandboxed runtimes, and coordinating with security, privacy, and legal teams to

Qualifications

• Degree in CS or software engineering with strong software fundamentals.
• Proficiency in Python, distributed systems, and IaC.
• Experience across cloud providers or provider-agnostic designs.
• Experience with sandboxing or isolation tech; Rust is a plus.
• Strong communication to explain complex concepts.

Responsibilities

• Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month infrastructure projects from start to production.
• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors and surface results for review.
• Deploy monitoring across multiple clouds with consistent pipelines and observability.
• Design sandboxed runtimes with isolation, network controls, and audit logging.
• Manage cost and capacity for large-scale agent workloads and SLIs.
• Collaborate with engineers, researchers, security, privacy, and legal teams to ship trusted work.

Skills

Python

Distributed Systems

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud providers

Sandboxing

Rust

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Job description

Anthropic is seeking software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems. As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well‑being, focusing on distributed, scalable infrastructure to detect unwanted behaviors and enforce policy.

Responsibilities include leading multi‑month projects, deploying monitoring across clouds, designing sandboxed runtimes, and coordinating with security, privacy, and legal teams to