Staff Software Engineer, People Products

job-boards.greenhouse.io- JobBoard; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the People Products team in San Francisco. This role involves full-stack development of AI-native workflows to support hiring and employee management processes.

Successful candidates build independently, work cross-functionally, and engage directly with users. The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $320,000 to $405,000, along with great benefits and a hybrid work policy.

Qualifications

• Experience in building LLM-native features or applications is a plus.
• Background in AI-native companies or product-focused engineering environments preferred.
• Comfortable in a hybrid work environment, with some in-office presence.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack across the People Products portfolio.
• Design and implement AI-native workflows.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to iterate quickly.
• Make product and architecture decisions independently.
• Contribute ideas on team processes and products.

Skills

Full-stack development

AI-native features

Independently making architectural decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

Ability to engage with users

Strong problem-solving skills

Time management under pressure

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Greenhouse

Workday

Rippling

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, People Products

Remote-Friendly (Travel Required) | San Francisco, CA

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.

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.

The annual compensation range for this role is $320,000 - $405,000 USD

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.

As set forth in Anthropic’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.