Backend Software Engineer, Anthropic
API
$320-405k
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AI safety and research company
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AI safety and research company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$320-405k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Role
Who you are
- Have 4-10 years experience building production, full-stack software with a focus on usability
- Have experience building and maintaining scalable internal applications and platforms
- Excel at modern web development (React, TypeScript, Node.js)
- Bring strong experience with cloud technologies and services (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Demonstrate a focus on reliability and iterative improvement
- Communicate with empathy and strive to understand user needs
- We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Enjoy collaborating cross-team and working with users to gain alignment on requirements and functionality
- Have experience implementing accessibility best practices to ensure products are usable and beneficial for all users
- Have experience balancing trade-offs while maintaining security, privacy, and reliability standards
- Coach and mentor other engineers
- Have experience anticipating changing business needs to create technical roadmaps
- Be able to obtain a US Government Clearance
What the job involves
- Anthropic is looking for an empathetic engineer to build internal tools that enable and increase productivity for our employees, including scenarios for fraud, trust & safety, sales, and support teams.
- You'll collaborate closely with internal users to understand needs and create efficient solutions, often augmenting the tools with Claude for a greater experience and impact
- On Employee Acceleration Tools, we are passionate about delighting and enabling our users through thoughtful and easy-to-use everyday solutions
- At Anthropic, we're building towards an ambitious mission of ensuring AI systems are safe and beneficial to humanity. Our Employee Acceleration Tools team plays a crucial role in this mission by enabling our teams to work efficiently and securely at scale
- Rapidly design, prototype and build full-stack internal tools for business-critical use cases
- Consult with different teams to deeply understand their workflows and identify opportunities for improved productivity through engineering
- Iterate rapidly based on user feedback to continuously improve our tools
- Create intuitive interfaces that make complex tasks simple and efficient
- Monitor system reliability, build for operational excellence, and lead incident response when issues arise
- Champion best practices in API design, security, and user experience
Application process
- Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
190% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (4.3)
Trustpilot (1.5)
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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