Software Engineer, Safeguards

Job summary

About Ant*** Ant***’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.

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Qualifications

• for the position
• Location-based hybrid 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.
• 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.
• We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification.
• Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.
• We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.
• We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
• Your safety matters to us.
• To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Ant*** recruiters only contact you from @Ant***.com email addresses.

Responsibilities

• As a software engineer on the Safeguards team, you will work to monitor models, prevent misuse, and ensure user well-being.
• You will apply your technical
• Develop monitoring systems to detect unwanted behaviors from our API partners and potentially take automated enforcement actions; surface these in internal dashboards to analysts for manual review
• Build abuse detection mechanisms and infrastructure
• Surface abuse patterns to our research teams to harden models at the training stage
• Build robust and reliable multi-layered defenses for real-time improvement of safety mechanisms that work at scale
• You May Be a Good Fit If You
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable experience
• Proficiency in Python and Typescript
• Ability to work across the stack
• Strong communication

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