Full Stack Software Engineer, Anthropic
Product
$405-485k
+ Equity donation
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AI safety and research company
Open for applications
AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$405-485k
+ Equity donation
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 7+ years of practical experience as a fullstack software engineer, ideally operating as a growth engineer, building APIs, or owning developer products/experiences
- Have demonstrated success in building high-adoption, well crafted consumer facing products
- Take a user-focused approach to development and care about solutions that are robust, scalable, and easy to use
- Enjoy pair programming (we love to pair!)
- Thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and enjoy working closely with cross-functional partners and teammates
- Are passionate about the potential of AI to reach and benefit a wide audience, and eager to tackle cutting-edge problems in AI safety and conversational AI
- Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Have worked with NLP and ML models before and understand their capabilities and limitations
- Have built products from zero to one and/or operated in a startup environment
- Possess a vision for the future of AI product growth and a drive to make that vision a reality
What the job involves
- Anthropic is looking for seasoned fullstack software engineers to join our core product teams and help build interfaces and APIs to interact with large language models
- You will work with a team of talented engineers, product managers, designers, and researchers to design and implement key components of our current (ex. Claude.ai, our developer API) and future products and platform
- The API Developer Experience team is leading and defining the developer experience in the world of LLMs. Today, users struggle to get the most out of LLMs (e.g., navigating the cost-performance curve, etc). Put simply, it's easy to build a cool demo, but making a reliable and production-ready application is hard
- As models become more intelligent and developers use models to perform more complex tasks (i.e. long-running agentic services), it'll be even harder for developers to understand what the model is capable of, how it’s performing, and how to observe it in multiple dimensions
- Our newly formed Growth team is looking for engineers who will help drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention for Claude.ai through data-driven strategies and technical implementations
- Develop and implement technical solutions to support user acquisition, activation, retention, and revenue growth
- Craft an industry-defining developer experience for building AI applications
- Contribute to the development of AI-powered personalization and recommendation systems to enhance user engagement
- Develop conversational interfaces that leverage the language models
- Own and optimize end-to-end flow for using the Anthropic API, everything from onboarding to documentation to prompt engineering tools
- Design and execute A/B tests and experiments to optimize user onboarding, feature adoption, and overall product experience
Our take
Funded by Google and founded by ex-OpenAI employees, Anthropic is an AI company focused on building a reliable, innovative AI system. While the company is relatively new to the market it has already launched a highly anticipated AI chat assistant called Claude which is set to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Similar to other chatbots, Claude is accessible through a chat interface and can provide a number of conversation and text-processing tasks. A key point of differentiation is that Claude is designed to produce less harmful outputs than that of the other chatbots that came before it.
While there is much praise for the chat assistant, there is still room for improvement with feedback reporting that Claude is worse at maths and grammar compared to its rival. However, with industry giants like Google backing this company from an early stage, it is clear Anthropic has the potential to become a leading player within the AI industry.
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Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Mar 2025
$3.5bn
SERIES E
Jan 2025
$1bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $16.3bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Inclusive fertility benefits via Carrot Fertility
- Generous subsidy for OneMedical
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave
- Unlimited PTO
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching
- $500/month flexible wellness stipend
- Commuter coverage
- Annual education stipend
- A home office improvement stipend when you first join
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Dario Amodei
(CEO & Co-Founder)Spent almost 5 years at OpenAI as a Team Lead for AI safety and as the Vice President of Research. Also worked as a Research Scientist at Google.
Jared Kaplan
(Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder)Has been a Professor at John Hopkins University for the past 10 years. Also an experienced researcher having worked previously at OpenAI and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.
Jack Clark
(Co-Founder)Experienced reporter having worked previously at the Register and Bloomberg. Also worked for OpenAI in Strategy and Communications and as a Policy Director.
Sam McCandlish
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Stanford University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Previously worked as a Research Lead at OpenAI.
Tom Brown
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Member of the Technical Staff for both OpenAI and Google Brain.
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