Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code

Anthropic$320K — $500K+*
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of software engineering experience
  • Proficient in React development and performance optimization
  • Hands-on experience with advanced LLM features such as prompt engineering
  • Strong understanding of user experience engineering
  • Experience in building and maintaining development tools
  • Curiosity about AI and its societal implications

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain AI-powered development tools
  • Engage with developers to gather insights for user experience improvement
  • Collaborate with researchers to enhance model capabilities
  • Experiment with new AI-assisted coding techniques and tools
  • Contribute to front-end and back-end development to optimize features
  • Explore new areas including Python notebooks and VS Code plug-ins

Benefits

  • Hybrid work policy with at least 25% office presence
  • Visa sponsorship assistance
  • Focus on diversity and inclusion in hiring
  • Opportunities to work at the intersection of technology and ethics
Full Job Description
We9re specifically looking for a Software Engineer to help us 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! 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. You may be a good fit if you: - Are excited about AI-assisted coding as a tool to enhance developer productivity and creativity-not replace human ingenuity - Spend a lot of time refining and customizing your AI workflows - Have experience building and maintaining dev tools - Are an expert in React development, including performance optimization, modern patterns (hooks, context, suspense), and component architecture - Specialize in user experience engineering but are a capable full stack developer - Have hands-on experience working with large language models and prompt engineering - Have worked on projects with stringent safety, security and/or compliance requirements - Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work - Have 6+ years of work experience Strong candidates may also have experience with: - 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 The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. For sales roles, the range provided is the role9s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. Annual Salary: $320,000-$625,000 USD Logistics Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices. Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren9t able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this. We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you9re interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we9re building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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50 employees
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Founded
2019

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