Software Engineer, Tokens and Prompt Structures
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
CHECKED 4H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$320k–$405k
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