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Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA

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Frontier labonsitesenior$320k–$405k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own encoding libraries shaping how Claude consumes text and multimodal data.
  • Run experiments on feeding structured data into Claude without confusing it.
  • Touch systems from pretraining to finetuning to the API across the codebase.

What they offer

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours

Ideal candidate

Library-minded engineer with 5+ years building developer-facing APIs who enjoys partnering with researchers. Results-oriented collaborator who cares about societal impact and keeping complex systems simple.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience maintaining libraries, SDKs or developer-facing APIs
  • Familiarity with ML terminology and LLM architecture to work with researchers
  • Experience carrying out complex refactors in large codebases
  • Strong communication skills and enjoy working with researchers and engineers
  • Results-oriented, flexible, picks up slack outside job description
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
remote policy
Hybrid, at least 25% time in office

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
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