Principal Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); In loco; USD 300.000 - 320.000; Tempo pieno

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Equity donation matching

Flexible working hours

Vacation & parental leave

Modern office space

Descrizione del lavoro

Anthropic seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Life Sciences team to build biology software that scientists and the research community can depend on. You will own large portions of code, decide when features are ready to ship, and stay engaged after launch to ensure reliability.

The role blends individual contribution with potential team leadership, spanning genomics and structural biology. You will engage with the broader biology software community and shape release-ready tools, datasets,

Competenze

• Strong software engineering background with ability to ship production-grade code.
• Experience with large-scale biology software is a plus.
• Familiarity with Python, Linux, and cloud/computing environments.
• Ability to design, test, and review software with CI/CD practices.

Mansioni

• Design, build, and maintain biology software in genomics and structural biology for researchers and AI agents.
• Own the path from research code to public release, including testing, validation, benchmarking, and packaging.
• Maintain what we release: triage issues and review outside contributions.
• Represent the team in the biology community through conferences, workshops, and tutorials and translate learnings into priorities.
• Partner with team scientists to turn research code into well-tested, reusable software.
• Lead the technical direction of projects, potentially leading a small team.
• Build with Claude and AI coding agents as a central workflow and ensure agent-written code meets the same standards.
• Have built, released, and maintained biology software with evidence of adoption.
• Have deep working expertise in genomics or structural biology, data types and tools.
• Are proficient in Python and comfortable with large datasets in Linux and cloud environments.
• Practice rigorous testing and release engineering: unit/integration tests, CI, packaging, versioning.
• Use AI coding tools as a central part of how you build software and verify correctness of non-handwritten code.
• Have led a technical project with multiple contributors and can explain work clearly to biologists and engineers.

Conoscenze

Python

Linux

Cloud computing

Rust or C++

Testing & CI

AI tooling (Claude)

Mentoring

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Strumenti

Claude

Descrizione del lavoro

Anthropic seeks a Senior Software Engineer on the Life Sciences team to build biology software that scientists and the research community can depend on. You will own large portions of code, decide when features are ready to ship, and stay engaged after launch to ensure reliability.

The role blends individual contribution with potential team leadership, spanning genomics and structural biology. You will engage with the broader biology software community and shape release-ready tools, datasets,