Privacy Research Engineer Safeguards
@ Anthropic

New York, NY
$400,000
On Site
Full Time
Posted 17 hours ago

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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 Role

As a Privacy Research Engineer Safeguards at Anthropic, you will mitigate risks associated with building AI systems by designing and implementing privacy-preserving techniques, auditing current practices, and setting future directions for privacy handling.

Responsibilities

  • Lead privacy analysis of frontier models and audit data usage.
  • Develop privacy-first training algorithms and evaluation techniques.
  • Work with a senior team of engineers and researchers on privacy policy.
  • Advocate for responsible user data handling throughout the process.

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

  • Experience in privacy-preserving machine learning.
  • A track record of shipping products in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong coding skills in Python with ML frameworks like PyTorch or JAX.
  • Deep understanding of large language models and their training methods.
  • Familiarity with privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy.
  • Experience in a fast-paced startup engineering team.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional security initiatives.

Strong Candidates May Also

  • Have published papers on privacy-preserving ML at top venues.
  • Possess experience in training large language models.
  • Have developed tooling for privacy-preserving ML.

Compensation & Logistics

The base annual salary ranges from $320,000 to $485,000 USD. Total compensation includes equity, benefits, and potential incentive compensation. A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required. Anthropic practices a location-based hybrid policy, requiring office presence at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship is available for select candidates.

How We're Different

Anthropic takes a big science approach to AI research, focusing on high-impact, large-scale projects. The company fosters collaboration, frequent research discussions, and values clear communication and diversity in perspectives.

Key skills/competency

  • Privacy-preserving ML
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • Large Language Models
  • Differential Privacy
  • Data Auditing
  • Research
  • Startup
  • Collaboration

How to Get Hired at Anthropic

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Customize your resume: Highlight privacy and ML experience.
  • Showcase technical skills: Emphasize Python, PyTorch, and JAX expertise.
  • Detail research experience: Focus on privacy-preserving techniques.
  • Prepare for interviews: Brush up on AI safety and model auditing.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review differential privacy concepts.
Practice Python coding challenges.
Familiarize with ML frameworks like PyTorch.
Study large language model training details.

Behavioral Questions

Describe a time handling ambiguous problems.
Discuss cross-functional team collaboration experience.
Explain how you manage fast-paced environments.
Share examples of initiative in research projects.

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