Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

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.