# ML/Research Engineer, Safeguards

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/08046a8d-bb76-462e-8dec-8095559ce9ff

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Mid
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 350000 – 500000 USD per year

## Summary

This role involves building ML systems to detect and prevent misuse of AI models, from individual policy violations to coordinated attacks, plus developing defenses and safety evaluations for increasingly capable AI systems. It suits engineers or researchers with 4+ years of ML experience who want to work on AI safety and are comfortable moving from research prototypes to deployed systems.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Anomaly Detection, Machine Learning, Python, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- 4+ years ML engineering, research engineering, or applied research experience
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience building ML systems
- Comfort working across research-to-deployment pipeline
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent

## Nice to have

- Language modeling and transformers experience
- Classifiers, anomaly detection, or behavioral ML
- Adversarial machine learning or red-teaming
- Interpretability or probes
- Reinforcement learning
- High-performance, large-scale ML systems

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4949336008