Staff Software Engineer, Search
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY · San Francisco, CA
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Frontier labonsitestaff$1–$2
At a glance
Highlights
- Build Anthropic's search platform from scratch powering Claude's retrieval.
- Design scalable core search systems to expand how Claude accesses information.
- Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality.
What they offer
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Ideal candidate
Senior builder who loves creating large-scale search systems from zero with a small senior team. You care about safe, beneficial AI and owning core infrastructure that shapes how Claude finds information.
Requirements
- 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production
- Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
- Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
- remote policy
- Location-based hybrid, in office at least 25% of the time
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available, reviewed case-by-case with immigration support
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