Staff+ Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Anthropic · New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
- Level
- Staff
- Type
- full-time
- Mode
- On-site / hybrid
- Posted
- 2026-09-15
- Team
- Safeguards (Trust & Safety)
Role 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. About the role We are looking for 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 distributed and scalable systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models.…
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