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Anthropic

Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to be safe and beneficial for users and society. This role focuses on accelerating biological discovery and drug development through AI. As the Applied AI Engineering Manager for Life Sciences, you will lead a team of engineers who deploy AI solutions for scientific organizations. You will work closely with customers to understand their workflows and build prototypes, integrations, and agents that enable AI to perform meaningful work in labs and clinics. This is a hands-on leadership position requiring you to grow and manage the team, ensure technical success with strategic accounts, and translate field learnings into product improvements. The role involves building robust infrastructure to make messy biological data reliably accessible to AI agents, ensuring correctness, reproducibility, and auditability of results.

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Anthropic is seeking a Data Scientist to optimize compute allocation, a critical decision for the company. This role addresses two key problems: matching volatile demand to finite chip capacity and understanding the causal impact of various levers on user outcomes. You will build analytical frameworks, metrics, and causal inference models to inform these decisions, translating insights into operational changes. This position is ideal for someone who excels at resource allocation, systems thinking, and driving tangible results in production environments, working closely with infrastructure engineers and presenting findings to senior leadership.

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Anthropic is seeking a Commercial Counsel, SPARC (Safety, Policy, and Research Contracts) to join its legal team. This role will be instrumental in shaping how advanced AI technology is delivered to users, researchers, and enterprises globally. You will collaborate with experienced colleagues as strategic partners, focusing on cutting-edge AI safety and research agreements, including threat-sharing frameworks and collaborations that advance responsible AI development standards. Additionally, you will support Go-to-Market teams by handling enterprise agreements and customer negotiations. This is a prime opportunity for a driven attorney to gain deep expertise in commercial transactions while directly contributing to the development of responsible AI.

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As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large enterprises understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. You'll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.

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Anthropic is seeking an experienced Legal Program Manager to join our Commercial Legal team, focused on contracts and governance. This role is central to Anthropic’s compliance efforts on the commercial side, embedding deeply in sell-side contracting processes and helping build the controls, workflows, and governance infrastructure that revenue-generating activities require as the company matures. You will sit at the intersection of Legal, Finance, Revenue Operations, Sales, Partnerships, Engineering, and Accounting, ensuring commercial contracting practices meet governance and compliance standards, with an emphasis on revenue recognition. This is a high-visibility role where you will operate as a player-coach, managing and improving contracting processes while building scalable systems, templates, and playbooks.

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Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. As a Product Manager for Model Behaviors, you will partner with the Alignment Finetuning team to define and shape Claude's character, behaviors, and reinforcement signals. This role directly influences how millions of people experience AI by systematically identifying high-priority behavioral improvements, coordinating across Research, Product, and Safeguards teams, and accelerating the ability to ship well-aligned models. The ideal candidate possesses deep user empathy and the judgment to navigate nuanced behavior questions.

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Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Legal Program Manager to serve as the operational backbone of contracting for the Compute and Infrastructure team. This role will manage a high volume of procurement and vendor agreements, including datacenter colocation, lease, and build-to-suit agreements; hardware, chip, and network-equipment procurement; and construction, facilities, and operations-and-maintenance (O&M) contracts. You will build scalable contracting processes, including templates, playbooks, intake and approval workflows, and contract lifecycle management, to support the company's infrastructure buildout. This position owns the system, throughput, and visibility for all agreements from intake through signature.

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As a Transformative AI Research Economist at Anthropic, you will build macroeconomic models of AI that could be genuinely transformative and develop scenario-based forecasting tools to quantitatively reason about economic trajectories with no historical precedent. You will work on questions of aggregate growth, income distribution, and economic governance under scenarios that most of the profession has not yet modeled seriously. You will ground projections in microeconomic signals from the Anthropic Economic Index, using usage patterns across millions of real-world AI interactions surfaced through privacy-preserving measurement, so that scenario forecasts are disciplined by observed task transformation and productivity. You will use frontier methods in growth theory, computational macro, and structural estimation, and contribute to AI-powered tools that expand what economic research can do.

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Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. As a TPU Kernel Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying and addressing performance issues across various ML systems, including research, training, and inference. A significant part of this role involves designing and optimizing kernels specifically for the TPU, and providing feedback to researchers on how model changes affect performance. We are looking for individuals with a strong background in solving large-scale systems problems and performing low-level optimizations.

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Anthropic is seeking a Threat Collections Engineer to join its Threat Intelligence team. This foundational engineering role involves building the infrastructure critical for threat discovery. You will integrate external data sources, develop automated detection systems for lead generation, and create internal tooling to enhance investigator impact. The position offers the opportunity to take projects from initial concept through to production, collaborating closely with investigators to understand their needs and scale the collections function.

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About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the RL Teams Our Reinforcement Learning teams lead Anthropic's reinforcement learning research and development, playing a critical role in advancing our AI systems. We've contributed to all Claude models, with significant impacts on the autonomy and coding capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. Our work spans several key areas: - Developing systems that enable models to use computers effectively - Advancing code generation through reinforcement learning - Pioneering fundamental RL research for large language models - Building scalable RL infrastructure and training methodologies - Enhancing model reasoning capabilities We collaborate closely with Anthropic's alignment and frontier red teams to ensure our systems are both capable and safe. We partner with the applied production training team to bring research innovations into deployed models, and are dedicated to implement our research at scale. Our Reinforcement Learning teams sit at the intersection of cutting-edge research and engineering excellence, with a deep commitment to building high-quality, scalable systems that push the boundaries of what AI can accomplish. About the Role We're hiring for the Code RL team within the RL organization. As a Research Engineer, you'll advance our models' ability to safely write correct, fast code for accelerators. You'll need to know accelerator performance well to turn it into tasks and signals models can learn from. Specifically, you will: - Invent, design and implement RL environments and evaluations. - Conduct experiments and shape our research roadmap. - Deliver your work into training runs. - Collaborate with other researchers, engineers, and performance engineering specialists across and outside Anthropic. You may be a good fit if you: - Have expertise with accelerators (CUDA, ROCm, Triton, Pallas), ML framework programming (JAX or PyTorch). - Have worked across the stack – kernels, model code, distributed systems. - Know how to balance research exploration with engineering implementation. - Are passionate about AI's potential and committed to developing safe and beneficial systems. Strong candidates may also have: - Experience with reinforcement learning. - Experience porting ML workloads between different types of accelerators. - Familiarity with LLM training methodologies. The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $350,000—$850,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: 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 Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings. How we're different We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences. Come work with us! Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.

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Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer/Scientist for its Alignment Science team. This role involves designing and executing machine learning experiments to understand and steer the behavior of advanced AI systems, with a focus on AI safety and potential risks from future human-level AI. You will collaborate with other teams on exploratory research, contributing to Anthropic's mission of creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are helpful, honest, and harmless.

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Safeguards Labs is a new team at Anthropic focused on AI safety, operating at the intersection of research and engineering. The team's mission is to investigate novel safety methods to protect users and the AI system itself. We prototype new approaches to safe models, usage safeguards, and production safety, pressure-testing ideas through offline analysis and subsets of traffic before they are implemented in production systems. This role involves defining and executing the Labs research agenda, scoping projects, running experiments end-to-end, and deciding on the viability of research ideas. The team is structured with a high ratio of researchers to software engineers, offering substantial autonomy and influence over the team's direction.

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Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer to join its Pre-training team, focusing on developing the next generation of large language models. This role operates at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical engineering, contributing to the creation of safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI systems. The team is dedicated to ensuring that transformative AI systems are aligned with human interests and societal benefit.

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Anthropic is seeking passionate Research Scientists and Engineers to join our growing Pre-training team in Zurich. This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical engineering, contributing to the development of safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI systems. You will be involved in developing the next generation of large language models, with a primary focus on multimodal capabilities, enabling LLMs to understand and interact with modalities beyond text.

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Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models. Note: For this role, we conduct all interviews in Python. This role may require responding to incidents on short-notice, including on weekends.

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Anthropic's production models undergo sophisticated post-training processes to enhance their capabilities, alignment, and safety. As a Research Engineer on our Post-Training team, you'll train our base models through the complete post-training stack to deliver the production Claude models that users interact with. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge research and production engineering, implementing, scaling, and improving post-training techniques like Constitutional AI, RLHF, and other alignment methodologies. Your work will directly impact the quality, safety, and capabilities of our production models. For this role, interviews are conducted in Python, and the position may require responding to incidents on short notice, including weekends.

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Anthropic's ML Performance and Scaling team is responsible for training our production pretrained models, a critical function that directly shapes the company's future and its mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems. As a Research Engineer on this team, you will ensure our frontier models train reliably, efficiently, and at scale. This demanding, high-impact role requires deep technical expertise and a passion for large-scale ML systems, operating at the boundary between research and engineering. You will work across the entire production training stack, including performance optimization, hardware debugging, experimental design, and launch coordination, responding to critical production issues during launches.

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Anthropic's ML Performance and Scaling team is responsible for training the company's production pretrained models, a critical function that directly shapes the future of Anthropic and its mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems. As a Research Engineer on this team, you will ensure that frontier models train reliably, efficiently, and at scale. This role bridges the gap between research and engineering, involving work across the entire production training stack, including performance optimization, hardware debugging, experimental design, and launch coordination. During model launches, the team operates in close collaboration, addressing production issues that require immediate attention.

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Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer to join its Pretraining team, focusing on developing the next generation of large language models. This role operates at the intersection of cutting-edge research and practical engineering, aiming to build safe, steerable, and trustworthy AI systems. The mission is to ensure that transformative AI systems are aligned with human interests and are beneficial for society. The team is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of AI while prioritizing safety and ethics.

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We are seeking a Research Engineer for our Code RL team, focused on advancing AI models' capabilities in writing, editing, testing, debugging, and shipping real software. This role involves designing RL environments, coding tasks, and reward signals, as well as running training experiments on frontier models. You will diagnose model performance, improve pipeline speed and reliability, and contribute to areas like agentic coding behaviors, code correctness, and autonomous engineering. The position blends cutting-edge research with practical engineering to build high-quality, scalable AI systems.

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As a Research Engineer within Reinforcement Learning, you will collaborate with a diverse group of researchers and engineers to advance the capabilities and safety of large language models. This role blends research and engineering responsibilities, requiring you to both implement novel approaches and contribute to the research direction. You'll work on fundamental research in reinforcement learning, creating 'agentic' models via tool use for open-ended tasks such as computer use and autonomous software generation, improving reasoning abilities in areas such as mathematics, and developing prototypes for internal use, productivity, and evaluation.

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As a Research Engineer within Reinforcement Learning, you will collaborate with a diverse group of researchers and engineers to advance the capabilities and safety of large language models. This role blends research and engineering responsibilities, requiring you to both implement novel approaches and contribute to the research direction. You'll work on fundamental research in reinforcement learning, creating 'agentic' models via tool use for open-ended tasks such as computer use and autonomous software generation, improving reasoning abilities in areas such as mathematics, and developing prototypes for internal use, productivity, and evaluation.

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Anthropic is seeking Research Engineers to reimagine how Claude interacts with external data sources. This role involves designing novel architectures for organizing information and training language models to effectively utilize these architectures. The goal is to move beyond traditional data paradigms to accommodate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs).

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The Knowledge Work team at Anthropic builds the training environments and evaluations that empower Claude to excel in professional workflows, including searching, analyzing, and creating content across various tools and documents. As this work expands, the underlying systems require the same rigor as the research itself. In this role, you will design and execute experiments to enhance Claude's ability to search, retrieve, and reason over information at scale. Your responsibilities will encompass environment design, data curation, RL training, evaluation, and supporting infrastructure, requiring flexibility to address progress blockers. You will collaborate closely with researchers and other RL teams to implement capabilities that directly influence Claude's performance. We believe that true ownership and impact stem from both hardening existing environments and creating new ones, ensuring the quality of the entire stack that drives superhuman epistemics.

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The Interpretability team at Anthropic is dedicated to understanding how large language models work, believing that a mechanistic understanding is key to making advanced AI systems safe and reliable. This role involves building and maintaining the specialized infrastructure for interpretability research, akin to performing 'neuroscience' on neural networks. The work spans the entire lifecycle of a production language model, from pretraining and inference to performance optimization, pushing the boundaries of hardware and software to address critical bottlenecks. As interpretability research matures and is applied to safety audits on frontier models, engineering and infrastructure have become crucial, making this role directly impactful on one of AI's most significant open problems.

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As a Research Engineer on the Economic Research Data Platform team, you will design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure that powers Anthropic's research on AI's economic impact. You will work with data systems from across Anthropic, including our research tools for privacy-preserving analysis. The Economic Research team studies the economic implications of AI on individual, firm, and economy-wide outcomes, building scalable systems to monitor AI usage patterns and measure the impact of AI adoption on real-world outcomes. You will collaborate closely with teams across Anthropic, including Data Science and Analytics, Data Infrastructure, Societal Impacts, and Public Policy, to build scalable and robust data systems supporting high-leverage, high-impact research.

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As a Research Engineer on our team, you will work end-to-end across the entire model stack, identifying and addressing key infrastructure blockers on the path to scientific AGI. You should have familiarity with elements of language model training, evaluation, and inference, and be eager to quickly dive into and get up to speed in areas where you are not yet an expert. This may include performance optimization, distributed systems, VM/sandboxing/container deployment, and large-scale data pipelines. Join us in our mission to develop advanced AI systems that push the frontiers of science and benefit humanity.

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The Cybersecurity RL team within Anthropic is seeking a Research Engineer to advance the capabilities of AI models in secure coding, vulnerability remediation, and defensive cybersecurity. This role combines research and engineering, requiring the design and implementation of RL environments, conducting experiments, delivering work into production training runs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have domain expertise in cybersecurity and an interest or experience in training safe AI models, potentially coming from backgrounds like white hat hacking, security engineering, or detection and response.

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Anthropic is seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Claude Developer Platform team and serve as the senior-most individual contributor across API Engineering. This role sets the technical direction for the systems that make Claude accessible to developers, enterprises, and partners at scale. You will operate at the intersection of technical strategy and execution, partnering closely with Research, Inference, Platform, Infrastructure, and Safeguards to ensure the Claude API is reliable, capable, and positioned to grow with Anthropic's ambitions. This is a high-agency role that spans all API Engineering teams, including API Core, API Capabilities, API Knowledge, API Distributability, and API Agents.

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We are seeking engineers to join a new initiative focused on developing AI-powered products and capabilities for cybersecurity. This role offers the opportunity to work across the entire technology stack, prototyping new concepts and building solutions from the ground up. You will operate at the nexus of research, product development, and go-to-market strategies. This involves close collaboration with research teams to advance model capabilities for security applications, rapid prototyping to validate ideas, and direct engagement with customers and partners to shape our product roadmap. The ideal candidate will possess the technical acumen for research engagement, the product intuition to identify valuable initiatives, and the drive to execute quickly.

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Anthropic's Human Data Interfaces team is responsible for building the systems that collect data to improve AI models. This includes developing novel interfaces for data vendors, creating essential tooling, and establishing the front-end and back-end infrastructure that empowers researchers to gather high-quality data at scale. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will take ownership of the architecture and execution of our data collection pipelines. Your role will involve designing systems that are not only performant at scale but also resilient to the dynamic needs of our research teams. You will collaborate closely with researchers, our cross-functional data operations partners, and the crowdworkers and vendors who utilize these tools daily.

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Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to be safe and beneficial for users and society. This senior, foundational role on a new team involves making key architectural decisions and shaping initial development. The work is hands-on and varied, encompassing pipeline and infrastructure engineering, prompt tuning, and supporting research teams. The RL Data team focuses on building systems for high-quality reinforcement learning data for Claude, including data collection pipelines, human feedback tooling, execution environments, and quality assurance to ensure trustworthy training data at scale. The goal is to enhance Claude's capabilities in real-world tasks, particularly in AI safety research and beneficial AI deployments.

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Anthropic is at the forefront of AI development, making it a prime target for sophisticated actors. The Threat Intelligence function within the Detection & Response team is crucial for anticipating and mitigating these threats. In this role, you will be a hands-on practitioner responsible for generating actionable intelligence that guides our detection, hunting, and defensive strategies. You will track adversaries targeting AI labs, develop tools and pipelines to transform raw indicators into operational defenses, and collaborate closely with detection engineers and incident responders to ensure intelligence effectively influences security outcomes. This is a high-impact, builder-focused role on a small team, offering significant autonomy in shaping how threat intelligence is collected, analyzed, and operationalized at Anthropic.

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Anthropic's research teams are pushing the boundaries of AI safety and capability research, and they need exceptional tools to do their best work. As a Software Engineer on the Research Tools team, you'll build the infrastructure and applications that enable our researchers to iterate quickly, run complex experiments, and extract insights from frontier AI systems. This role sits at the intersection of product thinking and full-stack engineering. You'll work directly with researchers and engineers to deeply understand their workflows, identify bottlenecks, and rapidly ship solutions that multiply their productivity. Whether you're building human feedback interfaces for model evaluation, creating platforms for experiment orchestration, or developing novel visualization tools for understanding model behavior, your work will directly accelerate our mission to build safe, reliable AI systems. We're looking for someone who can operate with high agency in an ambiguous environment—someone who can be dropped into a research team, quickly develop domain expertise, and independently drive impactful projects from conception to delivery.

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Anthropic is seeking software engineers to build foundational systems for AI safety, oversight, and intervention mechanisms. In this role, you will focus on monitoring models, preventing misuse, and ensuring user well-being by developing systems to detect unwanted model behaviors and disallowed use cases. You will apply your technical expertise to uphold principles of safety, transparency, and oversight, contributing to the development of reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to be safe and beneficial for users and society. The Application Security team plays a crucial role in integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle. In this hands-on technical role, you will collaborate with software engineers and researchers to embed security from design to implementation. You will lead threat modeling and secure design reviews, proactively identify and mitigate risks, and build tools to support secure coding practices. Your work will influence our tooling, detection capabilities, and defenses against emerging AI/ML threats, while also developing standards, processes, and educational resources to empower all engineers as security champions. This role requires a security practitioner with an attacker's mindset, a developer's perspective, and strong relationship-building skills.

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Anthropic is building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to ensure AI is safe and beneficial. The Security Risk team is rebuilding risk management as an engineering function, leveraging automation and AI-native platforms. This role involves identifying, prioritizing, and treating the company's most critical security risks across a broad spectrum of systems, from authorization to cryptography. You will help define the future of risk management for frontier AI companies, with a direct impact on CISO-level decisions and the opportunity to build the underlying AI-native platform. The work is largely greenfield, allowing you to shape the architecture and discipline.

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Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. Our Inference team is responsible for building and maintaining the critical systems that serve Claude to millions of users worldwide, managing the entire stack from intelligent request routing to fleet-wide orchestration across diverse AI accelerators. The team's dual mandate is to maximize compute efficiency for explosive customer growth while enabling breakthrough research by providing scientists with high-performance inference infrastructure for next-generation models. This involves tackling complex, distributed systems challenges across multiple accelerator families and emerging AI hardware on various cloud platforms.

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Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) team partners with other teams across Anthropic to enhance the reliability of critical serving paths, from SDKs through API layers, serving infrastructure, and accelerators. This role offers a unique, cross-cutting exposure to the most important systems at Anthropic, requiring a holistic view of system composition and reliability.