Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs
About this role
The Access Programs team at Anthropic builds the systems that verify customer identity, grant access to advanced model capabilities for approved use cases, and ensure that access is not misused. Engineers on this group develop the identity, vetting, and access management infrastructure that underpins trusted access programs, alongside the monitoring and enforcement tooling needed to keep them safe. This work sits at the center of how frontier capabilities are deployed responsibly.
Daily responsibilities involve designing access control systems, building KYC and KYB verification workflows, configuring per-customer safety thresholds, and integrating with third-party vendors. The position demands close collaboration with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams to ensure access decisions remain well-informed and consistently applied. Ideal candidates bring a strong background in backend production systems, cross-functional collaboration, and an interest in making powerful AI models safer for society.
What you will do
- Build identity verification and vetting systems to establish the identity of individual and business customers.
- Design and implement access control systems that grant, scope, and revoke access to advanced capabilities based on approved use cases.
- Develop monitoring mechanisms to detect misuse of expanded access and build tooling for enforcement teams to act on findings.
- Partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams to ensure consistent access decisions.
- Build systems that identify account compromise and takeover, apply real-time mitigations, and guide affected accounts through full remediation.
- Design and create dashboards, alerting, and internal admin tooling to provide visibility into access program health and outcomes.
What you need
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or possess comparable professional experience.
- Demonstrate experience building and operating backend systems in production environments.
- Possess strong coding skills in at least one general-purpose programming language and experience building software with AI coding tools.
- Show strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Care about the societal impacts of AI and want work to make powerful systems safer.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience
- Experience building shared platforms or foundational services that many teams and products depend on
- A track record of working across functions to gather requirements and drive adoption
- Experience with identity, authentication, or authorization systems at scale
- Experience in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Questions candidates ask
What is the remote or hybrid work 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.
What is the annual compensation for this role?
The annual salary range for this position is $320,000 — $485,000 USD.
Does Anthropic offer visa sponsorship?
We do sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa if we make an offer, retaining an immigration lawyer to help with this process.
What teams will I collaborate with in this role?
You will partner closely with policy, enforcement, threat intelligence, product, research, and go-to-market teams so that access decisions are well-informed and consistently applied.