Senior Staff Software Engineer, API
$405,000 – $485,000 USD
Tech Stack
Responsibilities
- Define and drive multi-year technical strategy for the Claude API across multiple teams (API Core, Capabilities, Knowledge, Distributability, and Agents).
- Identify and personally lead the highest-complexity, highest-impact engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams.
- Serve as the primary technical decision-maker for major architectural decisions with org-wide scope.
- Partner with Research, Inference, Platform, Infrastructure, and Safeguards to integrate frontier capabilities and ensure reliable, secure, and responsible API deployment.
- Mentor and develop Staff-level engineers across the organization and drive alignment across Product, GTM, and Safety stakeholders.
Soft Skills
Technical Decision-MakingMentoringCross-Functional CollaborationWritten Communication
Benefits
- Equity
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Hours
- Visa Sponsorship
Culture
Mission-DrivenWork-Life BalanceCross-Functional TeamsCollaborative Space
Requirements
Required: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Regions: Us
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About Anthropic
Industry: ai
Size: small
Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems to ensure AI is safe and beneficial for users and society. The team is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders committed to building beneficial AI systems.
View company profile →Compensation
Base salary: $405,000 – $485,000 USD
Equity: optional equity donation matching