# Research Engineer (Senior Staff+), Safeguards Labs at Anthropic

> Closed role observed by RunReq as of 2026-08-30T19:51:18.489911+00:00.

## Role details

- Company: [Anthropic](http://runreq.com/company/anthropic/index.md)
- Location: San Francisco, CA \| New York City, NY
- Team: AI Research & Engineering
- Compensation: $350K–$850K /YR
- First observed: 2026-06-22T04:37:26.971807+00:00
- Days open: 57
- Employer posting: [View the authoritative posting](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5191785008)

## Shortened description

### Key responsibilities

- Lead research projects that detect Claude misuse, malicious accounts, model safety risks, and abusive behavior.
- Analyze model usage data, build detection systems, and evaluate safeguards in chat based and agentic workflows.
- Develop prototypes for real time safeguards and transfer successful methods to production engineering teams.
- Build evaluations, measure safeguard effectiveness, and communicate findings to Trust and Safety, research, and product teams.

### Qualifications needed

- Have a Bachelor's degree or equivalent education, training, or experience in a relevant field.
- Independently drive research from ambiguous problems to results in artificial intelligence, machine learning, security, integrity, or related fields.
- Scope own work across research, engineering, analysis, and understand large language model sampling, prompting, and training.
- Use Python and work with large datasets.

## Hiring context

- Open roles on this team: 66
- Newly observed on this team in 30 days: 6
- Company median days open: 44

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