Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

Anthropic; Friendly (MD); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; 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 engineers for its public sector engineering team to develop and scale AI solutions for government use. Ideal candidates should have experience in building AI products and navigating government regulations.

Responsibilities include architecting deployments, enhancing AI applications, and collaborating with various stakeholders. A Bachelor’s degree is required, along with strong collaboration skills.

The annual salary range for this position is between $405,000 and $485,000 USD.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI products and understanding their capabilities.
• Strong technical background in enterprise government products.
• Excellent collaboration skills with sales and policy teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship compliant public sector deployments.
• Build AI applications tailored to government workflows.
• Partner with teams to improve Claude for government use.

Skills

AI product development

Cross-functional collaboration

Deployment on government networks

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

About the role

Anthropic is bringing Claude to the U.S. government and allied democracies, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to grow our public sector engineering team. This is a small team with large surface area. You’ll work across the stack to take products from 0 to 1 and beyond.

We are looking for product- and civic-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling great products. The opportunities outpace our ability to build them all, so the right candidate thrives on sharp judgment, prioritization, and focus. You’ll own work like:

• Building Claude products that can be used by customers in highly regulated environments
• Deploying Claude into government networks
• Understanding and improving Claude’s usefulness in common government workflows – for example, policy research, benefits administration, intelligence analysis
• Scaling and innovating Claude for Government, our existing product serving U.S. government customers today

Our team is filling a number of roles and is open to candidates with either full-stack or backend experience.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and ship deployments that meet public sector compliance and security requirements, from FedRAMP to classified networks
• Build AI applications tailored to government workflows by developing deep understanding of how agencies actually operate
• Partner with research and safeguards teams to evaluate and improve Claude for government use cases
• Work directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to turn requirements into technical and product roadmaps
• Design scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls across constrained environments
• Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

Minimum qualifications

• Experience building AI products and a working intuition for their capabilities and limitations
• A strong technical track record building and shipping enterprise- or government-grade products
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills — you’ll partner with sales, legal, research, and policy teams alike

Preferred qualifications

• Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack or backend software engineer
• Startup experience, particularly in scaling products from zero to one
• Experience partnering with sales, customer success, and professional services teams to drive product adoption
• Experience deploying software on government networks
• Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)

This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports a United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government clearance.

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:

$405,000 — $485,000 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.

Benefits

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.