Software Engineer, Anthropic

Safeguards

$240-325k

Offers optional equity donation matching

SQL
Python
Tensorflow
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

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Anthropic

AI safety and research company

Open for applications

Anthropic

AI safety and research company

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Open for applications

$240-325k

Offers optional equity donation matching

SQL
Python
Tensorflow
Scikit-Learn
PyTorch
Mid, Senior and Expert level
London

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Role

Who you are

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
  • 3-8+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection
  • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data analysis tools
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Desirable

  • Have experience building trust and safety mechanisms for AI/ML systems, such as fraud detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
  • Have experience with machine learning frameworks like Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, or Pytorch, and experience building machine learning models
  • Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
  • Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

What the job involves

  • We are looking for software engineers to help build safety and oversight mechanisms for our AI systems
  • As a trust and safety software engineer, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being
  • This role will focus on building systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and prevent disallowed use of models
  • You will apply your technical skills to uphold our principles of safety, transparency, and oversight while enforcing our terms of service and acceptable use policies
  • Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
  • Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure
  • Surface abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage
  • Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale
  • Analyze user reports of inappropriate content or accounts

Application process

  • Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

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Top investors

190% employee growth in 12 months

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Company

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
  • Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
  • Generous subsidy for OneMedical
  • 21 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
  • 401(k) plan with 4% matching
  • $500/month flexible wellness stipend
  • Commuter coverage
  • Annual education stipend
  • A home office improvement stipend when you first join
  • Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area

Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)

Mar 2025

$3.5bn

SERIES E

Jan 2025

$1bn

GROWTH EQUITY VC

Total funding: $16.3bn

Our take

Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.

While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.

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