Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra

The role

The Safeguards ML Infra team designs, builds, and operates production infrastructure for Claude's safety systems. You will manage model releases, deploy safety classifiers, and automate deployment pipelines.

What you will do

• Launch captain model releases by configuring and verifying safeguards
• Own off-cycle deployment of new safety classifiers
• Verify safeguards are live across deployment platforms
• Automate launch runbooks into tooling and repeatable pipelines
• Build and maintain a safeguards registry with full provenance
• Participate in on-call and operational-duty rotations

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Owned production change management at scale
• Run high-stakes releases
• Meaningful on-call experience for production systems
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) at scale
• Proficient in Python

Nice to have

• Experience with Rust
• 8+ years of industry software engineering or site reliability engineering experience
• Demonstrated history of reducing operational toil through automation
• Experience running launch or production-readiness review processes across multiple teams
• Familiarity with LLM inference systems and the operational characteristics of transformer-based models

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.