Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 405,000 - 485,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Equity donation matching

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking engineers to join our public sector team in San Francisco. You will build and deploy Claude products for government use, ensuring compliance with various regulations.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years of full stack or backend experience and a track record of scaling products. Competitive compensation is offered, alongside flexible working conditions and a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building AI products with a strong technical background.
• Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Build Claude products for regulated environments.
• Deploy Claude into government networks.
• Scale Claude for U.S. government customers.

Skills

AI product development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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.

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‑mindful 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 – e.g., policy research, benefits administration, intelligence analysis
• Scaling and innovating Claude for Government, our existing product serving U.S. government customers today
• 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)

Legal Requirement

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 U.S. government clearance.

Compensation

$405,000—$485,000 USD

Required Education & Experience

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.

Employment Logistics

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 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

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.