[P] Data Engineer, Safeguards

About the role

As a Data Engineer on the Safeguards team, you will build the data foundations that keep our AI systems safe. The Safeguards team works to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being — and doing that well requires robust, reliable data infrastructure.

You will design and build the pipelines, warehousing solutions, and analytical tooling that power our safety and trust efforts at scale. You'll work closely with engineers, data scientists, and policy teams to ensure the Safeguards organization has the data it needs to detect abuse patterns, measure the effectiveness of safety interventions, and make informed decisions about model behavior and enforcement. This is a high-impact role where your work directly supports Anthropic's mission to develop AI that is safe and beneficial.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines that support safety monitoring, abuse detection, and enforcement workflows
• Develop and optimize data models and warehousing solutions to enable efficient analysis of large-scale usage and safety data
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting infrastructure that give Safeguards teams visibility into model behavior, misuse patterns, and enforcement outcomes
• Collaborate with engineers to integrate data from multiple sources — including model outputs, user reports, and automated classifiers — into a unified analytical layer
• Implement data quality frameworks, monitoring, and alerting to ensure the reliability of safety-critical data
• Partner with research teams to surface data insights that inform model improvements and safety interventions
• Develop self-service data tooling that enables stakeholders to explore safety data and generate reports independently
• Contribute to data governance practices, including access controls, retention policies, and privacy-compliant data handling

Minimum qualifications

• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, or similar
• Experience with modern data stack tools such as dbt, Airflow, Spark, or similar orchestration and transformation frameworks
• Experience building dashboards and data visualizations using tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Metabase
• Ability to communicate clearly and translate complex data concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related role
• Comfort contributing across the stack and picking up work outside your immediate scope when the situation calls for it
• Background in trust and safety, integrity, fraud, or abuse detection data systems
• Experience with large-scale event streaming systems such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or Kinesis
• Experience building data infrastructure that supports ML model monitoring or evaluation
• Familiarity with data privacy and compliance frameworks such as GDPR, CCPA, or similar
• Background in statistical analysis or experience working closely with data scientists
• A genuine interest in the societal implications of AI and in making AI systems safer

The annual compensation range for this role

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000 - $405,000 USD.

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

We currently 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.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions

This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage

Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.