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Software Engineer, Sandboxing

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · On-site

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About Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Backed by Accel, Bessemer and General Catalyst.

About the role

Every time Claude runs code, uses a computer, or works as an agent, it does so inside a sandbox. Our Sandboxing team builds the isolation layer behind that work. The same systems run the code Claude writes for users, the environments we train and evaluate models in, and the agents our customers deploy. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Software engineering experience in Linux systems programming, kernel development, or another low-level area
  • Strong programming skills in at least one systems language such as Rust, C, C++, or Go
  • Working knowledge of virtualization or container isolation technologies such as KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, gVisor, or runc
  • Understanding of Linux resource management, including namespaces, cgroups, scheduling, and memory management
  • Experience profiling and debugging performance issues at the system level
  • Ability to work in unfamiliar codebases and technical areas, and to ship practical solutions with measurable results
More about this role

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.

Every time Claude runs code, uses a computer, or works as an agent, it does so inside a sandbox. Our Sandboxing team builds the isolation layer behind that work. The same systems run the code Claude writes for users, the environments we train and evaluate models in, and the agents our customers deploy.

These workloads are untrusted by design, and there are a lot of them. Sandboxes need to start in milliseconds, hold up under adversarial code, and scale to a very large number of concurrent sessions. You will work at the boundary between the Linux kernel, virtualization, and the container ecosystem. You will partner with research, product, and security teams to make sure that safe and fast do not trade off against each other.

Design, build, and operate the sandboxing infrastructure that runs untrusted, model-generated code and agent workloads at scale

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