Software Engineer, Anthropic

Account Abuse

$300-405k

SQL
Python
Mid, Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

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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

$300-405k

SQL
Python
Mid, Senior and Expert level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1001+ employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceDeep TechMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Role

Who you are

  • A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
  • 3-10+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, 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 and using AI/ML systems, such as fraud-detection models or security monitoring tools or the infrastructure to support these systems at scale
  • Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

What the job involves

  • The Account Abuse team is tasked with ensuring Anthropic’s computing capacity is allocated fairly, minimizing resources available to bad actors and preventing them from coming back. As a software engineer on this team, you will build systems that gather and analyze signals at scale, balancing tradeoffs and coordinating closely with stakeholder teams throughout the company. The ideal candidate can see things from opponents’ perspectives, understand their means and motives, and anticipate their responses to countermeasures
  • Ability to think and respond quickly in a rapidly-changing greenfield environment
  • Jumping into other teams’ code to identify key points to gather signals or introduce interventions with minimal impact on their systems’ stability, complexity, or overall architecture
  • Integration with third-party data-enrichment vendors
  • Creating monitoring dashboards, alerts, and internal admin UX
  • Working closely with our data scientists to maintain situational awareness of our current usage patterns and trends, and with our Policy & Enforcement team to maximize the impact of their human-review availability
  • Building robust and reliable multi-layered defenses

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Insights

Top investors

190% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.3)

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Trustpilot (1.7)

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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