Staff Software Engineer, People Products

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic, a public benefit corporation located in San Francisco, is looking for a talented individual to join their People Products team. This role requires building full-stack solutions to enhance people processes in the company, with a focus on AI applications.

Ideal candidates will have a strong background in LLM features and be capable of making independent decisions. The position offers a salary range of $300,000 to $405,000 USD, flexible working hours, and benefits including generous vacation.

Qualifications

• Experience building large features independently and making architectural decisions.
• Joy in hard work and the act of creation.
• Comfortable engaging with users and receiving feedback.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end across the People Products portfolio.
• Design AI-native workflows and tools.
• Make product and architecture decisions independently.

Skills

Experience with LLM applications

Full-stack development

Experience in HR tech platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

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 the Role

In case you hadn’t noticed, Anthropic is growing fast. Really, really fast. The People Products team exists to support Anthropic’s mission by defining the blueprint for AI at work. We help hire the best person in the world for every job, ensure manager effectiveness, ramp new hires successfully, and ensure that we apply first principles thinking in how we shape Anthropic’s culture through the tools we build. We cover the entire employee lifecycle from hiring to onboarding, teamwork, and promotions.

You’ll work directly with Claude, with access to capabilities no external team has, on problems that are genuinely unsolved. You’ll move fast — prototype to production in days or weeks. We believe in cross‑functional thinkers who can reason across product, design, and engineering. You’ll be given high autonomy, own your decisions, and ship constantly. If you’ve experienced the pain of bad people practices and want to be the person who fixes them at the most consequential AI company in the world, this is that job.

Responsibilities

• Build full‑stack end‑to‑end across the People Products portfolio.
• Design and implement AI‑native workflows: build tools, evals, prompts, and products. You’ll help define what is possible in applied AI for people processes.
• Work directly with internal stakeholders — HR teams, recruiters, managers — to understand problems, gather feedback, and iterate quickly without waiting for requirements to be handed down. No gatekeeping, you are expected to talk to your customers.
• Make product and architecture decisions independently in a low‑structure environment: knowing when to cut scope, when to ship, and when to ask for input.
• Contribute ideas for how the team works, what it builds, and where applied AI can have the most leverage in people workflows.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You:

• Derive joy from hard work and the act of creation.
• Have shipped LLM‑native features or applications.
• Are experienced enough to build big features independently, and make great architectural decisions along the way.
• Are self‑sufficient end‑to‑end: you can go from idea to production without needing a designer, PM, or architect to unblock you.
• Move fast without cutting corners: you hold a high quality bar and know how to make smart tradeoffs under time pressure.
• Engage directly with users and criticism: you’re comfortable talking to internal customers, hearing hard feedback, and incorporating it quickly.
• Are genuinely mission‑driven: you care about the intersection of AI and people practices, not just the technical puzzle.
• Are a collaborative, supportive teammate: you bring people along, communicate clearly about tradeoffs, and make the people around you better.

Strong Candidates May Also Have:

• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or prior experience building Claude or LLM integrations in production.
• Background at an AI‑native company or in a product‑focused 0->1 engineering environment.
• Experience with HR tech platforms such as Greenhouse, Workday, or Rippling.

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: $300,000 – $405,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

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.

Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.