Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Posted 7d ago
Job Location
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
On-site
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Anthropic is seeking a Software Engineer to help build and maintain new agentic coding tools for developers. The ideal candidate will have a passion for developer tools, extensive knowledge of diverse programming environments and languages, and experience with advanced LLM features like tool-use, chaining and orchestration patterns, and prompt engineering. Curiosity about AI research is a must. We believe new AI capabilities are best achieved through secure foundations, and as capabilities grow more advanced, it is critical that progress moves forward safely and for the benefit of all society.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered development tools.
- Engage directly with developers inside and outside Anthropic to gather insights and improve user experience.
- Collaborate with researchers to improve model capabilities through shared tools and evals.
- Stay ahead of advancements in AI-assisted coding by experimenting with new tools, evaluating emerging techniques, and tracking enhancements to existing ones.
- Contribute across the stack—from front-end UI to back-end infrastructure—to develop new features, fix bugs, and optimize performance.
- Dive into possibly unfamiliar areas like Python notebooks, VS Code plug-ins, and containerized environments.
Requirements
- Excited about AI-assisted coding as a tool to enhance developer productivity and creativity.
- Spend a lot of time refining and customizing AI workflows.
- Experience building and maintaining dev tools.
- Expert in React development, including performance optimization, modern patterns (hooks, context, suspense), and component architecture.
- Specializes in user experience engineering but is a capable full stack developer.
- Hands-on experience working with large language models and prompt engineering.
- Worked on projects with stringent safety, security and/or compliance requirements.
- Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work.
- 6+ years of work experience.
- Building and maintaining CLI tools.
- Working in large codebases and quickly jumping in to unfamiliar development environments.
- Working with container orchestration and cloud infrastructure.
- Scaling TypeScript projects.
- Working with alternate JavaScript runtimes like Bun and Deno.
Benefits
- Annual compensation range: $320,000 - $625,000 USD
- Visa sponsorship available