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Software Engineer, Research Productivity

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA; New York City, NY)$405k - $625kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Software engineer role focused on building and scaling infrastructure to accelerate research at Anthropic. Independently scoping multi-month projects, making architectural decisions, partnering with researchers, and ensuring reliability and scalability of research tooling.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and scale infrastructure and systems that support rapidly increasing usage, where requirements and workload continue to evolve as the products built on top of them evolve
  • Independently scope and lead complex, multi-month engineering projects, from an ambiguous starting point through to a production system
  • Drive cross-organizational alignment on technical direction, working through ambiguous problem spaces with multiple stakeholders and teams
  • Make architectural decisions that shape the foundation of research infrastructure and tooling across Anthropic
  • Partner directly with researchers to deeply understand their workflows, then anticipate and design for how those needs will change
  • Iterate quickly, favoring pragmatic, first-principles solutions and fast feedback loops over heavy upfront design
  • Take ownership of the reliability and scalability of critical systems as load, usage, and complexity increase
  • Help set technical standards and best practices for the team, and mentor other engineers

Qualifications

  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure in production
  • A track record of independently scoping and delivering complex, ambiguous, multi-month technical projects
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on coding ability
  • Experience making architectural decisions that other engineers and teams build on top of
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience driving alignment across multiple teams or stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and operationProject scoping and deliveryArchitectural decision makingCross-team collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Lovely office spaces for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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