Software Engineer, Staff: Applied AI, Science & Engineering
Anthropic · New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build agent harnesses that let Claude drive real science and engineering work.
- Take Claude to labs tackling energy, materials, and hardware design problems.
- Turn partner learnings into reusable tools that shape future Claude capabilities.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
A senior builder who thrives in ambiguity with scientists, turning fuzzy research questions into shipped systems and caring deeply about making AI useful for real-world science.
Requirements
- Have 8+ years of experience building software, with strong engineering fundamentals and comfort across the stack, from data pipelines to tooling to quick interfaces
- Have built real systems with large language models, including agents, tool use, or evaluations
Lab profile
About Anthropic
AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.
What they build
- Claude
- Claude API
- Claude Code
Known for
- AI safety and alignment
- Model interpretability research
- Frontier LLM development
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Backed by Amazon and Google