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Silicon Engineer

Anthropic· Hardware
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San Francisco, CA$320k - $485kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Anthropic is building a custom silicon team and seeks engineers across multiple silicon domains to contribute to end-to-end silicon programs, from front-end design to packaging and power integrity, with a focus on shipping silicon and operating with high autonomy.

Responsibilities

  • Take part in end to end activities for the program: strategy, specification, execution and the technical bar.
  • Write the specifications and interface definitions that others design against and keep them coherent as the architecture converges
  • Make and own directional calls: technology and IP selection, where we build versus buy versus license, and where we take design authority versus rely on partners
  • Build and share AI-assisted approaches to the code-like parts of your domain, and help the team learn what Claude can genuinely accelerate
  • Contribute to the architecture and micro-architecture discussion from your domain's perspective, including the tradeoffs your area imposes on the rest of the chip
  • Partner with inference, performance, kernels, and infrastructure teams on hardware-software co-design, and with the hardware systems team on bring-up and integration
  • Support first-silicon bring-up and debug when it arrives, regardless of which domain you came in through

Qualifications

  • Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one silicon domain: front-end design, pre-silicon verification, physical design, design for test, analog and mixed-signal, technology and foundry, design infrastructure, or packaging and signal/power integrity
  • Direct personal contribution to silicon that taped out and shipped, with ownership you can speak to in detail
  • Working fluency in the domains adjacent to your own, sufficient to reason about chip-level tradeoffs outside your specialty
  • Experience working with external partners — ASIC houses, IP vendors, foundries, or test partners — including reviewing their work and holding a technical bar
  • Track record of owning directional technical decisions and their consequences, not only making recommendations
  • Practical experience using AI coding tools in your own work, and clear ideas about where they help and where they do not
  • Clear written and verbal communication, and experience driving alignment across teams and organizations
  • Comfort operating with high autonomy and little scaffolding on a highly dynamic program

Skills

Required:Silicon domain expertiseASIC collaboration with external partners

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Sep 16, 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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