# Software Engineer, Safeguards

**Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $320k – $425k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Abuse Detection, Monitoring Systems, Dashboards, Ai/Ml Safety, Prompt Engineering, Internal Tooling, Fraud Detection, Spam Detection
**Posted:** 2026-02-12

> Build safety mechanisms for AI systems including monitoring for unwanted behaviors, abuse detection, and enforcement tools. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience, Python/TypeScript proficiency, and preferably trust/safety expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities:

- 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

## You may be a good fit if you:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
- 5-10+ years of experience in a software engineering position, preferably with a focus on integrity, spam, fraud, or abuse detection and mitigation
- Proficiency in Python and Typescript
- Ability to work across the stack
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

## Strong candidates may also:

- Have experience building trust and safety detection mechanisms and intervention for AI/ML systems
- Have experience with prompt engineering, jailbreak attacks, and other adversarial inputs
- Have worked closely with operational teams to build custom internal tooling

## Annual Salary

$320,000—$425,000 USD

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