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Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA · 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

As Claude's capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people. The Access Programs team builds the systems that verify who our customers are, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused.

What they're looking for

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or comparable experience
  • Experience building and operating backend systems in production
  • Strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language, and experience building software with AI coding tools
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Care about the societal impacts of AI and want your work to make powerful systems safer
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.

As Claude's capabilities grow, so does our responsibility to ensure those capabilities reach the right people. The Access Programs team builds the systems that verify who our customers are, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused. As a software engineer on this team, you will build the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins our trusted access programs, along with the monitoring and enforcement tooling that keeps them safe. This work sits at the center of how Anthropic deploys frontier capabilities responsibly, balancing broad access with rigorous safeguards.

  • Build identity verification and vetting systems (KYC/KYB) that establish who our individual and business customers are
  • Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to...

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