ML Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards

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

We are seeking a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to join our Safeguards organization, where you'll build and scale the critical infrastructure that powers our AI safety systems. You'll work at the intersection of machine learning, large-scale distributed systems, and AI safety, developing the platforms and tools that enable our safeguards to operate reliably at scale.

As part of the Safeguards team, you'll design and implement ML infrastructure that powers Claude safety. Your work will directly contribute to making AI systems more trustworthy and aligned with human values, ensuring our models operate safely as they become more capable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable ML infrastructure to support real-time and batch classifier and safety evaluations across our model ecosystem
• Build monitoring and observability tools to track model performance, data quality, and system health for safety-critical applications
• Collaborate with research teams to productionize safety research, translating experimental safety techniques into robust, scalable systems
• Optimize inference latency and throughput for real-time safety evaluations while maintaining high reliability standards
• Implement automated testing, deployment, and rollback systems for ML models in production safety applications
• Partner with Safeguards, Security, and Alignment teams to understand requirements and deliver infrastructure that meets safety and production needs
• Contribute to the development of internal tools and frameworks that accelerate safety research and deployment

You May Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 5+ years of experience building production ML infrastructure, ideally in safety-critical domains like fraud detection, content moderation, or risk assessment
• Are proficient in Python and have experience with ML frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Have hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Understand distributed systems principles and have built systems that handle high-throughput, low-latency workloads
• Have experience with data engineering tools and building robust data pipelines (e.g., Spark, Airflow, streaming systems)
• Are results-oriented, with a bias towards reliability and impact in safety-critical systems
• Enjoy collaborating with researchers and translating cutting-edge research into production systems
• Care deeply about AI safety and the societal impacts of your work

Strong Candidates May Have Experience With

• Working with large language models and modern transformer architectures
• Implementing A/B testing frameworks and experimentation infrastructure for ML systems
• Developing monitoring and alerting systems for ML model performance and data drift
• Building automated labeling systems and human-in-the-loop workflows
• Experience in trust & safety, fraud prevention, or content moderation domains
• Knowledge of privacy-preserving ML techniques and compliance requirements
• Contributing to open-source ML infrastructure projects

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.

Key skills/competency

• ML Infrastructure Engineer
• AI Safety
• Distributed Systems
• Python
• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• Kubernetes
• Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP)
• Data Engineering
• Large Language Models