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Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure

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

CHECKED 3H AGO

Frontier labonsitestaff$405k–$605k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build infrastructure that improves Claude's capabilities via reinforcement learning.
  • Own platform layers beneath every environment, including the agent runtime.
  • Embed with research teams to productionize RL environments and transfer ownership.

What they offer

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

Ideal candidate

A systems-minded engineer who loves clean abstractions and preventing silent failures. You thrive embedding with researchers, turning messy code into maintainable frameworks others adopt and own.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in Python including static typing, async/concurrency and performant code
  • Proven API and framework design taste with adoption by other engineers/teams
  • Experience designing or operating stateful concurrent or distributed systems
  • Habit of verification with measurement, checks and testing for correctness
  • Experience working in large, evolving or research-style codebases
  • Strong communication and ability to scope ambiguous problems independently
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
remote policy
Hybrid - in office at least 25% of the time
visa sponsorship
We sponsor visas but cannot guarantee sponsorship for every role and candidate

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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