Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

at Anthropic

📍 United States
📍 Washington, United States
📍 New York City, United States
📍 San Francisco, United States

USD 405,000-485,000 per year

SENIOR

✅ Hybrid

✅ Visa Sponsorship

Tech Stack
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1-2 — basic awareness. Minimal hands-on experience, and a rudimentary understanding of the technology's purpose;

3-6 — daily use. Comfortable and regular usage, capable of handling common tasks and challenges related to the technology;

7-9 — you are an expert, you can teach others, you know all the pitfalls and tricks;

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Details

Anthropic is bringing Claude to the U.S. government and allied democracies and is seeking startup-minded engineers to grow its public sector engineering team. The role involves working across the stack to take products from 0 to 1 and beyond, with opportunities for candidates who have full-stack or backend experience.

Responsibilities

Build Claude products for customers in highly regulated environments.
Deploy Claude into government networks.
Improve Claude’s usefulness in government workflows, including policy research, benefits administration, and intelligence analysis.
Scale and innovate Claude for Government, Anthropic’s existing product for U.S. government customers.
Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks.
Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing a deep understanding of agency operations.
Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases.
Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps.
Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments.
Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints.

Requirements

Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations.
A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products.
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, including partnering with sales, legal, research, and policy teams.
8+ years of experience as a full-stack or backend software engineer preferred.
Startup experience, particularly scaling products from zero to one, preferred.
Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption preferred.
Experience deploying software on government networks preferred.
Active federal security clearance at the Secret level or above preferred.
U.S. citizenship verification is required due to citizenship-based legal restrictions related to government agency customers.
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Compensation

Annual salary: $405,000–$485,000 USD.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available, although sponsorship cannot be guaranteed for every role or candidate.
Immigration lawyer support for visa applications.
Competitive compensation and benefits.
Optional equity donation matching.
Generous vacation and parental leave.
Flexible working hours.

Work Policy

The role is remote-friendly in the United States. Anthropic currently expects all staff to work from one of its offices at least 25% of the time, although some roles may require more office time.