# Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Evals

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 role How do we know whether a model is safe - and how do we know whether the systems we built to catch misuse actually catch it? Anthropic answers both questions with evaluations. We measure model behavior across misuse, prompt injection, and user well-being to inform training and deployment decisions. We also use AI to investigate potential misuse of Claude, analyzing real-world traffic to surface bad actors and emerging threats that drive enforcement actions. Neither is worth much unless the evaluations behind them are representative, robust, and trustworthy. This role builds the methods and infrastructure that make them so. Sitting at the intersection of applied ML research and engineering, you'll design experiments to improve how we evaluate both model behavior and the agentic systems that govern it, build datasets that represent real a

- **Id**: 3988522
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/anthropic-staff-software-engineer-safeguards-evals-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T20:05:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T22:28:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8452
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Generous vacation, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Code Intelligence, Foundation Models, AI Safety & Alignment, AI Research Labs

## Company

- **Id**: 5
- **Name**: Anthropic
- **Domain**: anthropic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/anthropic>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 157
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.866
- **Repost share**: 0.006
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 54
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 320000
- **Max**: 485000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 485000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Data Augmentation** — Optional: yes
- **Interpretability** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: yes
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T22:28:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 298; Filings 12m: 298

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 54
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T23:56:49Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 485000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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