Staff Software Engineer — Search Platform, Flexible Hours

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 320,000 - 405,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Optional equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

A lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco is seeking a senior engineer to design and implement core search systems for Anthropic’s scalable search platform. You will work with a small, senior team of researchers and engineers to build from the ground up and deliver high-quality search capabilities.

You will establish metrics, tooling, and processes to improve search quality, ranking, and data processing for high-volume workloads, while collaborating across disciplines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building complex distributed systems in production.
• Solid grasp of search fundamentals: indexing, retrieval, ranking.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages.

Responsibilities

• Work with a senior team to build Anthropic’s search platform from scratch.
• Establish metrics and tooling to measure and improve search quality.
• Enhance search algorithms and indexing mechanisms to boost accuracy and efficiency.

Skills

Distributed systems

Search fundamentals

Programming: Python/Go/Java

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco is seeking a senior engineer to design and implement core search systems for Anthropic’s scalable search platform. You will work with a small, senior team of researchers and engineers to build from the ground up and deliver high-quality search capabilities.

You will establish metrics, tooling, and processes to improve search quality, ranking, and data processing for high-volume workloads, while collaborating across disciplines.