Staff Software Engineer, iOS

Anthropic; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in SF

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking seasoned iOS engineers to join the Claude mobile product team and build elegant apps leveraging advanced AI. You will work with engineers, researchers, design and product teams to implement core components and deliver high-quality mobile experiences.

The role emphasizes shipping impactful products, collaborating with cross-functional partners, and contributing to backend systems as needed. Location-based hybrid policy applies with in-office collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Proficiency with Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and iOS frameworks.
• Experience shipping high-impact mobile apps and mentoring teammates.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement cutting-edge iOS applications.
• Develop novel solutions leveraging AI technologies.
• Optimize performance across the mobile stack.
• Champion best practices in mobile development.
• Ensure obsessive attention to detail and app quality.
• Contribute to backend systems as needed.

Skills

Swift

UIKit

SwiftUI

iOS frameworks

Full-stack development

Shipping mobile apps

Communication skills

Mentorship

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Equivalent education/experience

Tools

Backend technologies

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

We're looking for seasoned iOS engineers to join our Claude mobile product team and help build apps that harness the transformative power of advanced language models. Our mission is to unlock the potential of advanced AI through elegant, user-friendly mobile applications that put unprecedented capabilities at users' fingertips. You will work with a talented team of engineers, researchers, design and Product teams to design and implement key components of our products. Join us in this exciting mission to transform how people engage with technology and unlock new realms of human potential.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and implement cutting-edge iOS applications
• Develop novel solutions leveraging AI technologies
• Optimize performance at all levels of the mobile stack
• Champion best practices in mobile development
• Obsessive attention to detail and app experience
• Contribute to backend systems as needed

Minimum Qualifications

• Expertise in Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, and iOS frameworks
• Proficiency with the latest mobile platform capabilities and intricacies
• Practical experience with full-stack development and comfort working with backend technologies
• A track record of shipping impactful, high-adoption mobile applications
• Strong communication and mentorship skills
• Thrived in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and and enjoy working closely with cross functional partners and teammates

Preferred Qualifications

• 0-to-1 experience building successful products in early-stage environments
• Experience building applications that utilize modern ML/AI technology
• 3D graphics, visual effects, and audio and video streaming on mobile
• A vision for the future of human-machine interaction and a drive to make that vision a reality

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary

$320,000—$405,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.

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