Senior Search Platform Engineer — Build Scalable AI Search

Anthropic; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in New York is seeking a veteran software engineer to design and implement core search systems for our Claude-powered platforms. You will join a small, senior team to build Anthropic’s search platform from the ground up and to drive performance at scale.

Applicants should have 5+ years of production distributed systems experience, a solid grasp of indexing, retrieval and ranking, and strong coding skills in Python, Go or Java, plus hands-on experience with high-volume data processing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production.
• Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Hands-on experience with high-volume data processing architectures.

Responsibilities

• Work with a small, senior team of engineers and researchers to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch
• Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality
• Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost search accuracy and efficiency

Skills

Distributed systems

Search fundamentals

Python

Go

Java

High-volume data processing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic in New York is seeking a veteran software engineer to design and implement core search systems for our Claude-powered platforms. You will join a small, senior team to build Anthropic’s search platform from the ground up and to drive performance at scale.

Applicants should have 5+ years of production distributed systems experience, a solid grasp of indexing, retrieval and ranking, and strong coding skills in Python, Go or Java, plus hands-on experience with high-volume data processing.