Staff+ Software Engineer (Public Sector)

Anthropic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible working hours

Generous vacation and parental leave

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a full stack engineer to design and build AI applications for governmental operations. This role involves collaborating across various teams, developing deployments, and ensuring government needs are met in AI solutions. Candidates should have over 8 years of experience in software engineering and a strong foundation in AI/ML models. This role is critical as the company expands its public sector capabilities and aims to leverage AI for meaningful applications in government. Competitive compensation and a hybrid work model are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a full stack software engineer.
• Experience with AI/ML models.
• Proven experience in building enterprise or government-grade products.

Responsibilities

• Build specialized AI applications for governments.
• Architect new deployments and design public sector features.
• Collaborate with research on AI models for government applications.

Skills

Full stack software engineering

AI/ML model integration

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Overview

About Anthropic. Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We aim for AI to be safe and beneficial for users and society. Our team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders building beneficial AI systems.

About The Role

Anthropic is bringing Claude to democracies worldwide, and we’re looking for startup-minded engineers to build out our public sector engineering team. Engineers in this role will work across the stack to scale our products from 0 to 1 and beyond. We welcome candidates with prior public sector experience as well as product-minded engineers with a track record of building and scaling products. This role is full-stack and entrepreneurial: you’ll own projects such as building deployments for new government customers, implementing products to surface critical information, and working directly with customers to understand how we can best leverage Claude to power their workflows.

You’d be joining at an exciting inflection point where we are evolving from basic Claude access for the public sector toward cutting-edge AI capabilities and a comprehensive public sector experience. The projects involve enabling governments to deploy AI applications for critical operations—from national security to public services. As the team grows, our focus includes delivering solutions that influence how democratic institutions deploy and use advanced AI systems.

Core Responsibilities

• Build specialized AI applications and products for governments by developing a deep understanding of their processes and workflows
• Take ownership of architecting new deployments and designing public sector specific features
• Collaborate closely with research on AI models for government applications and workflows
• Partner directly with government customers and internal go-to-market teams to translate requirements into technical and product roadmaps
• Design and build scalable systems for deployment, user management, and administrative controls
• Create clarity and technical direction in a fast-moving environment with unique constraints

You Might Be a Good Fit If You

• Have 8+ years of experience as a full stack software engineer
• Experience integrating and working with AI/ML models and understanding their capabilities
• Strong technical background with proven success building and shipping enterprise or government-grade products
• Have excellent collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively across functions

Strong Candidates May Also Have

• 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 delivering software to government networks
• Active federal security clearance (Secret or above)

This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. It 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.

Compensation and Legal

Annual Salary
$1—$2 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. Some roles may require more time in offices.
• Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa, with support from an immigration lawyer.

Note: We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every qualification. We seek diverse perspectives on our team and recognize the value of representation in AI work.

Your Safety and How We Work

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters contact from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If unsure, visit anthropic.com/careers for confirmed position openings.

How We’re Different

We believe the highest-impact AI research is big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on a few large-scale research efforts and value impact over smaller puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science and value strong communication skills. We also highlight recent research directions such as 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 for collaboration.