Anthropic
Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 8+ years in a software engineering position, excluding internships or co-ops (strong candidates may also have this experience); required years correlate with internal job level requirements.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience; minimum education is a 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; if an offer is made, Anthropic will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa.
About the job
Build fullstack safety and oversight systems that help analysts investigate abuse, supervise agents, identify abuse patterns, and prevent disallowed model use.
What you'll do
- Build internal review tools such as dashboards, case queues, and evidence viewers for abuse investigations.
- Create interfaces for human supervision of agents, including streaming output, interruption and approval flows, and action provenance.
- Own frontend architecture for sensitive-data tools at scale, including performance, real-time correctness, and end-to-end access controls.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience; minimum education is a bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Proficiency in TypeScript and modern React; comfortable in Python for backend work.
- Ability to work across the stack.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience building data-dense internal tools or operator interfaces.
- Experience in integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation; AI/ML trust and safety mechanisms; prompt engineering or adversarial inputs; or operational tooling.
Pay
$405,000 — $485,000 USD (annual salary/base salary)
Tools
TypeScript, React, Python
AI focus
Build safeguards to monitor models, detect unwanted model behavior, prevent misuse and disallowed use, and support human oversight of agents.
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