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Staff Software Engineer, Search

Anthropic· AI Research & Engineering
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY)$320k - $405kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer for Anthropic's search platform, responsible for designing and implementing core search systems to power Claude's information access and retrieval.

Responsibilities

  • Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch
  • Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality
  • Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Search fundamentalsProgramming languagesHigh-volume data processing

Benefits

  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • lovely office space to collaborate with colleagues
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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