Staff Software Engineer—AI Tooling for Devs

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 320,000 - 625,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible hours

SF office

Job summary

Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, is building reliable AI systems and cutting-edge developer tools. This Software Engineer role focuses on crafting scalable AI tooling and improving developer productivity with tool use, orchestration, and prompt engineering.

The candidate should have extensive experience with React, full-stack capabilities, and hands-on work with large language models while aligning with safety and ethics guidelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and/or experience.
• 6+ years of work experience.
• Experience with dev tools and UI to backend.
• Hands-on experience with large language models and prompt engineering.
• Experience with AI safety/compliance concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered development tools.
• Engage directly with developers inside and outside Anthropic to gather insights and improve user experience.
• Collaborate with researchers to improve model capabilities through shared tools and evals.
• Stay ahead of advancements in AI-assisted coding by experimenting with new tools and evaluating emerging techniques.
• Contribute across the stack—from front-end UI to back-end infrastructure—to develop new features, fix bugs, and optimize performance.
• Dive into possibly unfamiliar areas like Python notebooks, VS Code plug-ins, and containerized environments.

Skills

AI-assisted coding

Dev tools

React development

Full stack

Large language models

Prompt engineering

Safety/compliance

Ethics

6+ years experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

VS Code

Containerized environments

Python notebooks

Job description

Anthropic, headquartered in San Francisco, is building reliable AI systems and cutting-edge developer tools. This Software Engineer role focuses on crafting scalable AI tooling and improving developer productivity with tool use, orchestration, and prompt engineering.

The candidate should have extensive experience with React, full-stack capabilities, and hands-on work with large language models while aligning with safety and ethics guidelines.