Staff AI Systems Engineer for Applied Science

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking an engineer to advance Claude in science and engineering applications, collaborating with researchers and domain experts to turn fuzzy problems into concrete, testable tasks. You will build and harden systems that enable Claude to work with real data and tools across physics, materials, chemistry, and engineering.

You will spend time with domain experts to ensure Claude’s capabilities align with real-world workflows, balancing innovation with reliability and safety

Responsibilities

• Build the agent harnesses and research loops that let Claude carry a problem from literature review through hypothesis generation, simulation, analysis, and design iteration
• Connect scientific computing and simulation tools so Claude can drive them reliably and at scale
• Design and build evaluations that tell us whether Claude's work is actually right, and be honest about where it isn't
• Sit with scientists and engineers at partner organizations to learn their problem, data, tools, and constraints, and turn open-ended questions into well‑specified, verifiable tasks with clear success criteria
• Prototype with partners, ship pilots into their workflows, and cut anything that doesn't move the problem forward
• Turn what works in one engagement into shared tools, reusable components, and documented processes the next one can start from
• Be the technical voice on how Claude performs on science and engineering work, explaining results, limits, and tradeoffs clearly to researchers, engineering leads, and non‑technical stakeholders alike
• Partner with our research and product teams to share where models fall short on science and engineering work, and help shape what comes next

Job description

Anthropic is seeking an engineer to advance Claude in science and engineering applications, collaborating with researchers and domain experts to turn fuzzy problems into concrete, testable tasks. You will build and harden systems that enable Claude to work with real data and tools across physics, materials, chemistry, and engineering.

You will spend time with domain experts to ensure Claude’s capabilities align with real-world workflows, balancing innovation with reliability and safety