Anthropic
Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research
$350K–$500K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Jul 21, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years of experience correlate with internal job-level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after an offer.
About the job
Builds and operates research infrastructure, data pipelines, and workflows that help Safeguards researchers train, evaluate, and deploy systems for detecting and mitigating misuse of AI models.
What you'll do
- Build and scale infrastructure and data pipelines for Safeguards machine learning research, including training, evaluation, and scoring workflows.
- Develop researcher-facing tools and ensure results are reliable as models and workloads change.
- Move high-value experiments into production-grade jobs and improve the throughput, cost, and reliability of inference and scoring.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience building and operating production data-intensive or distributed systems.
- Experience building tooling or infrastructure used by other engineers or researchers.
- Ability to work across exploratory research and production systems, and debug performance and correctness issues across unfamiliar stacks.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale machine learning systems, language modeling and transformers, model internals, or GPU/accelerator programming and inference optimization.
- Experience with experiment tracking, caching, evaluation harnesses, probes, interpretability, or classifier development.
Pay
$350,000 — $500,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python
AI focus
Build infrastructure for research and deployment of lightweight detection methods that identify and mitigate misuse of AI models, including harmful behavior detected from model internals.
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