Anthropic
Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation
$320K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York City, NY
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- Years required correlate with internal job-level requirements; strong candidates may have 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; required field of study is relevant to the role.
- 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
Build scalable safety and oversight systems that detect unwanted model behavior and misuse, support analyst review, and strengthen model defenses.
What you'll do
- Develop monitoring systems and internal dashboards for detecting API-partner misuse and supporting manual or automated enforcement.
- Build abuse detection infrastructure and multi-layered, real-time safety defenses.
- Identify abuse patterns and share them with research teams to improve model training.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience.
- Proficiency in Python and Typescript.
- Ability to work across the stack.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience with integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation; trust and safety systems for AI/ML; or prompt engineering and adversarial inputs.
- Experience building internal tools with operational teams.
Pay
$320,000 — $485,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Typescript
AI focus
Build AI safety and oversight mechanisms to detect unwanted model behavior and disallowed use, and surface abuse patterns to improve model training.
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