Software Engineer, Anthropic
TypeScript
$320-560k
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AI safety and research company
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AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$320-560k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 5+ years of software engineering industry experience
- Have deep experience with TypeScript, React, and modern JavaScript tooling, including building and maintaining large-scale applications
- Are an expert in React development, including performance optimization, modern patterns (hooks, context, suspense), and component architecture
- Have strong testing expertise across the stack - from React components and hooks to end-to-end workflows - with experience designing test fixtures and maintainable testing strategies
- Have hands-on experience maintaining developer infrastructure including CI/CD pipelines, build tools, and bundlers
- Are passionate about developer experience and can both identify friction points and implement solutions that balance quick wins with long-term maintainability
- Have experience shipping developer tools and understand what makes tools useful and adoptable
- Have hands-on experience working with large language models and prompt engineering
- Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work
- Have shipped a sizable TypeScript app on Windows
Desirable
- Optimizing build and test performance for large TypeScript applications
- Implementing advanced React patterns like code-splitting and lazy loading
- Creating developer tooling for React applications like custom lint rules and test harnesses
- Working with container orchestration and cloud infrastructure
- Improving developer workflows in AI/ML projects
- Administering open-source JavaScript/TypeScript projects
- Working with alternate JavaScript runtimes like Bun and Deno
What the job involves
- We're specifically looking for a Software Engineer who can take ownership of developer experience and infrastructure for a complex TypeScript project. This role will focus on making our development process more efficient, reliable, and enjoyable while maintaining high quality and security standards
- Own and improve the development infrastructure for our core TypeScript project including CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks, and automated tooling
- Optimize our Bun/Node.js/TypeScript build system to balance speed, reliability, and security
- Design and maintain test fixtures that enable rapid, reliable development across the project
- Evaluate and integrate modern JavaScript runtime environments like Bun to improve build and test performance
- Maintain our npm dependencies and internal development tools
- Establish and enforce TypeScript best practices throughout the codebase
- Architect and maintain React component testing infrastructure including unit, integration, and visual regression tests
- Define and enforce React best practices, patterns, and component architecture
- Improve build tooling for optimal React development and production performance
- Create and maintain reusable component fixtures and testing utilities
- Create comprehensive technical documentation to help the team work effectively with our tools and practices
- Advocate for and implement developer experience improvements
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
190% employee growth in 12 months
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2024
$4bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2024
$50m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $11.8bn
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 values
- Here for the mission: We pursue our mission by building frontier systems, studying their behaviors, working to responsibly deploy them, and regularly sharing our safety insights. We collaborate with other projects and stakeholders seeking a similar outcome.
- Unusually high trust: We assume good faith, disagree kindly, and prioritize honesty. We expect emotional maturity and intellectual openness. At its best, our trust enables us to make better decisions as an organization than any one of us could as individuals.
- Do the simple thing that works: We celebrate trying the simple thing before the clever, novel thing. We embrace pragmatism - sensible, practical approaches that acknowledge tradeoffs. We love empiricism - finding out what actually works by trying it - and apply this to our research, our engineering and our collaboration. We aim to be open about what we understand and what we don’t.
- One big team: Collaboration is central to our work, culture, and value proposition. While we have many teams at Anthropic, we feel the broader sense in which we are all on the same team working together towards the mission.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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